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  • 1
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: IASS 16.90506
    Description / Table of Contents: In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that surrounds us. This book provides an exhaustive overview of the most important institutional proposals as well as a systematic and theoretical discussion of their respective features and advantages. It focuses on institutional proposals aimed at taking the interests of future generations more seriously, and does so from the perspective of applied political philosophy, being explicit about the underlying normative choices and the latest developments in the social sciences. It provides citizens, activists, firms, charities, public authorities, policy-analysts, students, and academics with the body of knowledge necessary to understand what our institutional options are and what they entail if we are concerned about today's excessive short-termism
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: XI, 432 Seiten
    ISBN: 0198746954 , 9780198746959
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: IASS 16.90080
    Description / Table of Contents: Exploring the politics of inclusive development : towards a new conceptual approach / Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru Bukenya -- The political determinants of economic growth : an analytical review / Kunal Sen -- The politics of what works for the poor in public expenditure and taxation / Paul Mosley -- Governing natural resources for inclusive development / Anthony Bebbington -- The politics of what works in service delivery / Claire Mcloughlin -- Political factors in the growth of social assistance / Armando Barrientos and Sony Pellissery -- The politics and process of rule of law systems in developmental states / Deval Desai and Michael Woolcock -- The gendered politics of securing inclusive development / Sohela Nazneen and Simeen Mahmud -- Ethnicity, state capacity, and development : reconsidering causal connections / Prerna Singh and Matthias vom Hau -- The politics of aid revisited : a review of evidence on state capacity and elite commitment / Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam -- China in Africa : impacts and prospects for accountable development / Giles Mohan
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: XX, 396 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. ed.
    ISBN: 9780198722564 (hbk.)
    Language: English
    Note: Exploring the politics of inclusive development : towards a new conceptual approach / Sam Hickey, Kunal Sen, and Badru BukenyaThe political determinants of economic growth : an analytical review / Kunal Sen -- The politics of what works for the poor in public expenditure and taxation / Paul Mosley -- Governing natural resources for inclusive development / Anthony Bebbington -- The politics of what works in service delivery / Claire Mcloughlin -- Political factors in the growth of social assistance / Armando Barrientos and Sony Pellissery -- The politics and process of rule of law systems in developmental states / Deval Desai and Michael Woolcock -- The gendered politics of securing inclusive development / Sohela Nazneen and Simeen Mahmud -- Ethnicity, state capacity, and development : reconsidering causal connections / Prerna Singh and Matthias vom Hau -- The politics of aid revisited : a review of evidence on state capacity and elite commitment / Arjan de Haan and Ward Warmerdam -- China in Africa : impacts and prospects for accountable development / Giles Mohan..
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  • 3
    Keywords: graphene ; graphite
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: A Novel Grafting of Polymers onto the Surface of Graphene Oxide by Norio Tsubokawa, Takeshi Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Fujiki and Shingo Tamesue --- Chapter 2: Photoinduced Pseudospin Dynamical Effects in Graphene-Like Systems by Alexander López and Benjamin Santos --- Chapter 3: Bilayer Graphene as the Material for Study of the Unconventional Fractional Quantum Hall Effect by Janusz Edward Jacak --- Chapter 4: Graphene Derivatives: Controlled Properties, Nanocomposites, and Energy Harvesting Applications by Ulises Antonio Méndez Romero, Miguel Ángel Velasco Soto, Liliana Licea Jiménez, Jaime Álvarez Quintana and Sergio Alfonso Pérez García --- Chapter 5: Growth Study and Characterization of Single-Layer Graphene Structures Deposited on Copper Substrate by Chemical Vapour Deposition by Stefanos Chaitoglou, Enric Bertran and Jose Luis Andujar --- Chapter 6: Green Routes for Graphene Oxide Reduction and Self- Assembled Graphene Oxide Micro- and Nanostructures Production by Rebeca Ortega-Amaya, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Esteban Díaz-Torres, Claudio Davet Gutierrez-Lazos, Manuel Alejandro Pérez-Guzmán and Mauricio Ortega-López --- Chapter 7: Tribological Aspects of Graphene-Aluminum Nanocomposites by Prashantha Kumar H.G. and Anthony Xavior M. --- Chapter 8: Controlled Functionalization of Graphene Layers by Maurizio Galimberti, Vincenzina Barbera and Annalisa Sironi --- Chapter 9: Synthesis of Graphene on Metal/SiC Structure by Petr Machac --- Chapter 10: Self-Assembly of Graphene Nanoribbons Induced by the Carbon Nanotube by Hui Li, Yifan Li and Wei Chen
    Pages: Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535131403
    Language: English
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  • 4
    Keywords: arc migration ; plate margins ; tectonic processes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Intermittent Formation, Sedimentation and Deformation History of Cenozoic Forearc Basins along the Northwestern Pacific Margins as an Indicator of Tectonic Scenarios by Osamu Takano --- Chapter 2: Cretaceous Research: Paleolatitudes and Northward Migration of Crustal Fragments in the NW Pacific Inferred from Paleomagnetic Studies by Yasuto Itoh and Reishi Takashima --- Chapter 3: Stratigraphic and Petrological Insights into the Late Jurassic– Early Cretaceous Tectonic Framework of the Northwest Pacific Margin by Reishi Takashima, Hiroshi Nishi and Takeyoshi Yoshida --- Chapter 4: Cretaceous Research: A New Constraint on the Paleostress Regime of Southwest Japan Based on Microfabric Analysis of a Granitic Pluton by Yasuto Itoh --- Chapter 5: Tectonic Synthesis: A Plate Reconstruction Model of the NW Pacific Region Since 100 Ma by Yasuto Itoh, Osamu Takano and Reishi Takashima
    Pages: Online-Ressource (120 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132226
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  • 5
    Keywords: nanomaterials ; nanotubes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The SF6 Decomposition Mechanism: Background and Significance by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 2: Application of CNTs Gas Sensor in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao, Ju Tang and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 3: Application of TiO2 Nanotubes Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Ju Tang, Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 4: Application of Graphene Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 5: Comparative Study of Materials to SF6 Decomposition Components by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao, Fuping Zeng, Cheng Pan and Yingang Gui
    Pages: Online-Ressource (158 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132585
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  • 6
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    Keywords: voltammetry ; analytical chemistry
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Applications of Chemometrics-Assisted Voltammetric Analysis by Ali R. Jalalvand --- Chapter 2: Study of Metrological Properties of Voltammetric Electrodes in the Time Domain by Krzysztof Suchocki --- Chapter 3: Direct Electron Transfer of Human Hemoglobin Molecules on Glass/Tin-Doped Indium Oxide by Flavio Dolores Martínez-Mancera and José Luis Hernández-López --- Chapter 4: Advances and Trends in Voltammetric Analysis of Dyes by Felipe Fantinato Hudari, Michelle Fernanda Brugnera and Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni --- Chapter 5: Applications of Voltammetric Analysis to Wine Products by Dolores Hernanz-Vila, M. José Jara-Palacios, M. Luisa Escudero- Gilete and Francisco J. Heredia --- Chapter 6: Modified Electrodes for Determining Trace Metal Ions by Pipat Chooto
    Pages: Online-Ressource (160 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132165
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    Keywords: Cloud computing ; Internet of Things
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: State-of-the-Art Antenna Technology for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) by Waleed Tariq Sethi, Abdullah Alfakhri, Muhammad Ahmad Ashraf, Amr G. Alasaad and Saleh Alshebeili --- Chapter 2: Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis by Shanrong Zhao, Kirk Watrous, Chi Zhang and Baohong Zhang --- Chapter 3: Green-Aware Virtual Machine Migration Strategy in Sustainable Cloud Computing Environments by Xiaoying Wang, Guojing Zhang, Mengqin Yang and Lei Zhang --- Chapter 4: M-ary Optical Computing by Jian Wang and Yun Long --- Chapter 5: Networking Solutions for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Ecosystem by Roman Florea, Aleksandr Ometov, Adam Surak, Sergey Andreev and Yevgeni Koucheryavy
    Pages: Online-Ressource (138 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132448
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    Keywords: perturbation theories ; perturbation methods
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Perturbed Differential Equations with Singular Points by Keldibay Alymkulov and Dilmurat Adbillajanovich Tursunov --- Chapter 2: Homotopy Asymptotic Method and Its Application by Baojian Hong --- Chapter 3: Green Function by Jing Huang --- Chapter 4: Renormalization Group Theory of Effective Field Theory Models in Low Dimensions by Takashi Yanagisawa --- Chapter 5: Relativistic Perturbation Theory Formalism to Computing Spectra and Radiation Characteristics: Application to Heavy Elements by Alexander V. Glushkov, Olga Yu. Khetselius, Andrey A. Svinarenko, Vasily V. Buyadzhi, Valentin B. Ternovsky, Anna A. Kuznetsova and Petr G. Bashkarev --- Chapter 6: Atoms-Photonic Field Interaction: Influence Functional and Perturbation Theory by Emmanouil G. Thrapsaniotis --- Chapter 7: Detection and Measurement of Quantum Gravity by a Curvature Energy Sensor: H-States of Curvature Energy by Francisco Bulnes
    Pages: Online-Ressource (198 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535132622
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    Keywords: surfactants
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Environmental Impact of the Use of Surfactants and Oxygenates in the Petroleum Industry by Tomasz Kalak --- Chapter 2: Recent Advances in Catanionic Mixtures by Darija Domazet Jurašin, Suzana Šegota, Vida Čadež, Atiđa Selmani and Maja Dutour Sikirć --- Chapter 3: Hydrophobic Polymers Flooding by Abdelaziz N. El-hoshoudy, Saad M. Desouky, Mohamed H. Betiha and Ahmed M. Alsabagh --- Chapter 4: Multifunctional Gemini Surfactants: Structure, Synthesis, Properties and Applications by Bogumil E. Brycki, Iwona H. Kowalczyk, Adrianna Szulc, Olga Kaczerewska and Marta Pakiet --- Chapter 5: The Versatile Dioctadecyldimethylammonium Bromide by Ana Maria Carmona-Ribeiro --- Chapter 6: Saponin-Based, Biological-Active Surfactants from Plants by Dorota Kregiel, Joanna Berlowska, Izabela Witonska, Hubert Antolak, Charalampos Proestos, Mirko Babic, Ljiljana Babic and Bolin Zhang --- Chapter 7: Amino Acid-Based Surfactants for Biomedical Applications by Lídia Pinheiro and Célia Faustino --- Chapter 8: The Potential Application of Selected Fungi Strains in Removal of Commercial Detergents and Biotechnology by Violeta D. Jakovljević and Miroslav M. Vrvić --- Chapter 9: Electrochemistry of Surfactants by Eduardo Nicolás Schulz, Erica Patricia Schulz and Pablo Carlos Schulz --- Chapter 10: SAXS and SANS Techniques for Surfactant Characterization: Application in Corrosion Science by Deepak Dwivedi and Kateřina Lepková
    Pages: Online-Ressource (314 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535133261
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    Keywords: optics ; laser ; laser applications
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Dynamics of Transient Plasmas Generated by Laser Ablation in Various Temporal Regimes by Petru-Edward Nica, Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc, Maricel Agop, Silviu Gurlui, Michael Ziskind and Cristian Focsa --- Chapter 2: Nanosecond Laser Ablation: Mathematical Models, Computational Algorithms, Modeling by Vladimir I. Mazhukin --- Chapter 3: Protected Laser Evaporation/Ablation and Deposition of Organic/Biological Materials: Thin Films Deposition for Nano- biomedical Applications by Gianina-Florentina Popescu-Pelin, Carmen-Georgeta Ristoscu, Maria Badiceanu and Ion N. Mihailescu --- Chapter 4: Structural Modifications of KrF Excimer Laser-Ablated Zirconium Correlated to the Surface and Mechanical Properties by Nisar Ali, Umm-i-Kalsoom, Shazia Bashir and Narjis Begum --- Chapter 5: Sequentially Timed All-Optical Mapping Photography for Real- Time Monitoring of Laser Ablation: Breakdown and Filamentation in Picosecond and Femtosecond Regimes by Keiichi Nakagawa, Takakazu Suzuki and Fumihiko Kannari --- Chapter 6: Optical Properties of Complex Oxide Thin Films Obtained by Pulsed Laser Deposition by Valentin Ion, Andreea Andrei, Maria Dinescu and Nicu Doinel Scarisoreanu --- Chapter 7: Nanoparticles, Nanocrystals, and Nanocomposites Produced with Pulsed Laser Ablation and Their Applications by Bülend Ortaç, Elif Uzcengiz Şimşek and Canan Kurşungöz --- Chapter 8: Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation of Organic Thin Films: Applications in Biology and Chemical Sensors by Alexandra Palla Papavlu, Valentina Dinca, Mihaela Filipescu and Maria Dinescu --- Chapter 9: Micro- and Nano-Structuring of Materials via Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Ablation by Chung-Wei Cheng and Jinn-Kuen Chen --- Chapter 10: Multi-Beam Multi-Target Pulsed Laser Deposition of AZO Films with Polymer Nanoparticles for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters by Abdalla M. Darwish, Sergey S. Sarkisov, Paolo Mele and Shrikant Saini --- Chapter 11: Fabrication of a Cell Electrostimulator Using Pulse Laser Deposition and Laser Selective Thin Film Removal by Angel Luis Aragón Beloso, María del Carmen Bao Varela, Alejandro Fernández Rodríguez, Gerard O’connor, Eliseo Pérez Trigo, Antonio Pazos Álvarez and Daniel Nieto García --- Chapter 12: In Vitro Evaluation of Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures on New Zirconia/Tantalum Biocermet for Hard-Tissue Replacement by Alberto Jorge-Mora, Naroa Imaz, Nekane Frutos, Ana Alonso, Carlota García Santiago, Rodolfo Gómez-Vaamonde, Jesús Pino- Minguez, Jose Bartolomé, Gerard O’connor and Daniel Nieto --- Chapter 13: Laser Ablation of Energetic Materials by Ruiqi Shen, Lizhi Wu, Wei Zhang and Haonan Zhang
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535137009
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  • 11
    Keywords: medicinal chemistry ; radiochemistry ; chemical biology ; molecular imaging
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Green Process of Three-Component Prostaglandin Synthesis and Rapid 11C Labelings for Short-Lived PET Tracers by Masaaki Suzuki, Hiroko Koyama, Hideki Ishii, Koichi Kato, Margareta Ögren and Hisashi Doi
    Pages: Online-Ressource (76 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535137658
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  • 12
    Keywords: acoustic waves ; sound waves ; seismology ; earthquake ; atmosphere
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Optimized Finite Difference Methods for Seismic Acoustic Wave Modeling by Yanfei Wang and Wenquan Liang --- Chapter 2: Acoustic Analysis of Enclosed Sound Space as well as Its Coupling with Flexible Boundary Structure by Jingtao Du, Yang Liu and Long Liu --- Chapter 3: Sound Waves in Complex (Dusty) Plasmas by Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Asif Shakoori, Maogang He and Sajid Bashir --- Chapter 4: Acoustic Wave Monitoring of Fluid Dynamics in the Rock Massif with Anomaly Density, Stressed and Plastic Hierarchic Inclusions by Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay --- Chapter 5: In-Fiber Acousto-Optic Interaction Based on Flexural Acoustic Waves and Its Application to Fiber Modulators by Miguel Ángel Bello Jiménez, Gustavo Ramírez-Meléndez, Erika Hernández-Escobar, Andrés Camarillo-Avilés, Rosa López-Estopier, Olivier Pottiez, Cristian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José L. Cruz and Miguel V. Andrés --- Chapter 6: Wave Propagation in Porous Materials by Zine El Abiddine Fellah, Mohamed Fellah, Claude Depollier, Erick Ogam and Farid G. Mitri --- Chapter 7: A Novel Idea of Coherent Acoustic Wave-Induced Atmospheric Refractivity Fluctuation and Its Applications by Shuhong Gong, Yu Liu, Muyu Hou and Lixin Guo
    Pages: Online-Ressource (152 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535137160
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  • 13
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: PIK B 100-17-91198
    Description / Table of Contents: The financial crisis of 2007 and the following recession present a major challenge to macroeconomic theory. The same holds true for exceptionally low interest rates during the recent years and for the puzzle that super-expansive monetary policies failed to produce high inflation. Approaches that focus on steady states, rational expectations, and individuals planning over infinite horizons, are not suitable for analysing such abnormal situations. 'A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics' refines and improves mainstream approaches to resolve these puzzles and to contribute to a better understanding of monetary and fiscal policies. Using a rich institutional structure that includes features such as credit money, external finance, borrowing constraints, net worth, real estate and commercial banks, this timely study reduces rationality requirements to cope with its complex setting. It starts with a simple baseline model, deriving results from mathematical reasoning and simulations whilst adhering to the method of dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) with optimizing agents and fully specified models. Highly topical, 'A Study in Monetary Macroeconomics' uses a unified theoretical framework to demonstrate that a DGE approach makes it possible to develop clean models that work outside steady states and are appropriate for answering macroeconomic questions of actual interest
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: x, 205 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198807537
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1: Introduction ; 2: Framework ; 3: Traditional topics ; 4: Constrained credit ; 5: Net worth ; 6: Real estate ; 7: Commerical banks ; 8: Methods
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  • 14
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: PIK D 024-16-90309 ; IASS 17.90309
    Description / Table of Contents: "Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required. Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World aims to make normative theorising on climate justice more relevant and applicable to political realities and public policy. The motivation behind this edited collection is that normative theorising has something to offer even in an imperfect world mired by partial compliance and unfavourable circumstances. In the last years, a lively debate has sprung up in political philosophy about non-ideal theory and there has also been an upsurge of interest in the various normative issues raised by climate change such as intergenerational justice, transnational harm, collective action, or risk assessment. However, there has been little systematic discussion of the links between climate justice and non-ideal theory even though the former would seem like a paradigm example of the relevance of the latter. The aim of this edited volume is to address this. In doing so, the volume presents original work from leading experts on climate ethics, including several who have participated in climate policy. The first part of the book discusses those facets of the debate on climate justice that become relevant due to the shortcomings of current global action on climate change. The second part makes specific suggestions for adjusting current policies and negotiating procedures in ways that are feasible in the relatively short term while still decreasing the distance between current climate policy and the ideal. The chapters in the third and final part reflect upon how philosophical work can be brought to bear on the debates in climate science, communication, and politics."--
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xvii, 323 Seiten , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. edition
    ISBN: 9780198744047
    Language: English
    Note: Climate change and non-ideal theory : six ways of responding to non-compliance / Simon Caney -- A climate of disorder : what to do about the obstacles to effective climate politics / Aaron Maltais -- Difference-making and individuals' climate-related obligations / Holly Lawford-Smith -- Reducing injustice within the bounds of motivation / Dominic Roser -- Taking UNFCCC norms seriously / Darrel Moellendorf -- Justice and choice of legal instrument under the Durban mandate : ideal and not so ideal legal forms / Peter Lawrence -- Emissions trading schemes in a 'non-Ideal' world / Jonathan Aldred -- A responsible path : advancing a full-participation climate regime through enhanced action on short-lived climate pollutants / Andrew Light and Gwynne Taraska -- Climate justice for LDCs through global decisions / Achala Abeysinghe and Saleemul Huq -- A free movement passport for the territorially dispossessed / Clare Heyward and Jorgen Odalen -- Aristotle on the ethics of communicating climate change / Melissa Lane and Michael Lamb -- Moral language in climate politics / Jonathan Pickering -- The costs of moralizing : how about a 'government house climate ethics'? / Christian Seidel -- Principles or pathways? Improving the contribution of philosophical ethics to climate policy / Martin Kowarsch and Ottmar Edenhofer..
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    Call number: AWI G1-17-90601
    Description / Table of Contents: This innovative study presents concepts and problems in soil physics, and provides solutions using original computer programs. It provides a close examination of physical environments of soil, including an analysis of the movement of heat, water and gases. The authors employ the programming language Python, which is now widely used for numerical problem solving in the sciences. In contrast to the majority of the literature on soil physics, this text focuses on solving, not deriving, differential equations for transport. Using numerical procedures to solve differential equations allows the solution of quite difficult problems with fairly simple mathematical tools. Numerical methods convert differential into algebraic equations, which can be solved using conventional methods of linear algebra. Each chapter introduces a soil physics concept, and proceeds to develop computer programs to solve the equations and illustrate the points made in the discussion. Problems at the end of each chapter help the reader practise using the concepts introduced. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates and researchers of soil physics. It employs an open source philosophy where computer code is presented, explained and discussed, and provides the reader with a full understanding of the solutions. Once mastered, the code can be adapted and expanded for the user's own models, fostering further developments. The Python tools provide a simple syntax, Object Oriented Programming techniques, powerful mathematical and numerical tools, and a user friendly environment.
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: X, 449 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 0199683093 , 9780199683093
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1 Introduction. - 2 Basic Physical Properties of Soil. - 2.1 Geometry of the Soil Matrix. - 2.2 Soil Structure. - 2.3 Fractal Geometry. - 2.4 Geometry of the Pore Space. - 2.5 Specific Surface Area. - 2.6 Averaging. - 2.7 Bulk Density, Water Content and Porosity. - 2.8 Relationships between Variables. - 2.9 Typical Values of Physical Properties. - 2.10 Volumes and Volumetric Fractions for a Soil Prism. - 2.11 Soil Solid Phase. - 2.12 Soil Texture. - 2.13 Sedimentation Law. - 2.14 Exercises. - 3 Soil Gas Phase and Gas Diffusion. - 3.1 Transport Equations. - 3.2 The Diffiisivity of Gases in Soil. - 3.3 Computing Gas Concentrations. - 3.4 Simulating One-Dimensional Steady-State Oxygen Diffusion in a Soil Profile. - 3.5 Numerical Implementation. - 3.6 Exercises. - 4 Soil Temperature and Heat Flow. - 4.1 Differential Equations for Heat Conduction. - 4.2 Soil Temperature Data. - 4.3 Numerical Solution of the Heat Flow Equation. - 4.4 Soil Thermal Properties. - 4.5 Numerical Implementation. - 4.6 Exercises. - 5 Soil Liquid Phase and Soil-Water Interactions. - 5.1 Properties of Water. - 5.2 Soil Water Potential. - 5.3 Water Potential-Water Content Relations. - 5.4 Liquid- and Vapour-Phase Equilibrium. - 5.5 Exercises. - 6 Steady-State Water Flow and Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.1 Forces on Water in Porous Media. - 6.2 Water Flow in Saturated Soils. - 6.3 Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.4 Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity. - 6.5 Exercises. - 7 Variation in Soil Properties. - 7.1 Frequency Distributions. - 7.2 Probability Density Functions. - 7.3 Transformations. - 7.4 Spatial Correlation. - 7.5 Approaches to Stochastic Modelling. - 7.6 Numerical Implementation. - 7.7 Exercises. - 8 Transient Water Flow. - 8.1 Mass Conservation Equation. - 8.2 Water Flow. - 8.3 Infiltration. - 8.4 Numerical Simulation of Infiltration. - 8.5 Numerical Implementation. - 8.6 Exercises. - 9 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.1 Digital Terrain Model. - 9.2 Triangulated Irregular Network. - 9.3 Numerical Implementation. - 9.4 Main. - 9.5 Triangulation. - 9.6 GIS Functions. - 9.7 Boundary. - 9.8 Geometrical Properties of Triangles. - 9.9 Delaunay Triangulation. - 9.10 Refinement. - 9.11 Utilities. - 9.12 Visualization. - 9.13 Exercise. - 10 Water Flow in Three Dimensions. - 10.1 Governing Equations. - 10.2 Numerical Formulation. - 10.3 Coupling Surface and Subsurface Flow. - 10.4 Numerical Implementation. - 10.5 Simulation. - 10.6 Visualization and Results. - 10.7 Exercises. - 11 Evaporation. - 11.1 General Concepts. - 11.2 Simultaneous Transport of Liquid and Vapour in Isothermal Soil. - 11.3 Modelling evaporation. - 11.4 Numerical Implementation. - 11.5 Exercises. - 12 Modelling Coupled Transport. - 12.1 Transport Equations. - 12.2 Partial Differential Equations. - 12.3 Surface Boundary Conditions. - 12.4 Numerical Implementation. - 12.5 Exercises. - 13 Solute Transport in Soils. - 13.1 Mass Flow. - 13.2 Diffusion. - 13.3 Hydrodynamic Dispersion. - 13.4 Advection-Dispersion Equation. - 13.5 Solute-Soil Interaction. - 13.6 Sources and Sinks of Solutes. - 13.7 Analytical Solutions. - 13.8 Numerical Solution. - 13.9 Numerical Implementation. - 13.10 Exercises. - 14 Transpiration and Plant-Water Relations. - 14.1 Soil Water Content and Soil Water Potential under a Vegetated Surface. - 14.2 General Features of Water Flow in the SPAC. - 14.3 Resistances to Water Flow within the Plant. - 14.4 Effect of Environment on Plant Resistance. - 14.5 Detailed Consideration of Soil and Root Resistances. - 14.6 Numerical Implementation. - 14.7 Exercises. - 15 Atmospheric Boundary Conditions. - 15.1 Radiation Balance at the Exchange Surface. - 15.2 Boundary-Layer Conductance for Heat and Water Vapour. - 15.3 Evapotranspiration and the Penman-Monteith Equation. - 15.4 Partitioning of Evapotranspiration. - 15.5 Exercise. - Appendix A: Basic Concepts and Examples of Python Programming. - A.1 Basic Python. - A.2 Basic Concepts of Computer Programming. - A.3 Data Representation: Variables. - A.4 Comments Rules and Indendation. - A.5 Arithmetic Expression. - A.6 Functions. - A.7 Flow Control. - A.8 File Input and Output. - A.9 Arrays. - A.10 Reading Date Time. - A.11 Object-Oriented Programming in Python. - A.12 Output and Visualization. - A.13 Exercises. - Appendix B: Computational Tools. - B.1 Numerical Differentiation. - B.2 Numerical Integration. - B.3 Linear Algebra. - B.4 Exercises. - List of Symbols. - List of Python Variables. - List of Python Projects. - References. - Index.
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    Call number: PIK N 630-18-91681
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xxii, 231 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198757368 , 9780198757375
    Uniform Title: Diversité fonctionnelle des plantes
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1: A functional approach to biological diversity ; 2: Trait-based ecology: definitions, methods, and a conceptual framework ; 3: The functional characterisation of plants ; 4: Gradients, response traits, and ecological strategies ; 5: A functional approach to plant community structure ; 6: Plant traits and ecosystem properties ; 7: Functional diversity and ecosystem services ; 8: Functional diversity in agriculture: the cases of grasslands and crop weeds ; 9: Managing functional diversity data ; 10: Perspectives for functional diversity research
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: PIK N 072-18-91858
    Description / Table of Contents: This textbook, by three experts in the field, provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law. Climate change is one of the fundamental challenges facing the world today, and is the cause of significant international concern. In response, states have created an international climate regime. The treaties that comprise the regime - the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement establish a system of governance to address climate change and its impacts. This book provides a clear analytical guide to the climate regime, as well as other relevant international legal rules. The book begins by locating international climate change law within the broader context of international law and international environmental law. It considers the evolution of the international climate change regime, and the process of law-making that has led to it. It examines the key provisions of the Framework Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. It analyses the principles and obligations that underpin the climate regime, as well as the elaborate institutional and governance architecture that has been created at successive international conferences to develop commitments and promote transparency and compliance. The final two chapters address the polycentric nature of international climate change law, as well as the intersections of international climate change law with other areas of international regulation. This book is an essential introduction to international climate change law for students, scholars and negotiators.--
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    Pages: xxxix, 374 Seiten
    Edition: First edition, Impression: 3
    ISBN: 9780199664306 , 9780199664290
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1: Introduction ; 2: Climate Change and International Law ; 3: Treaty-Based Lawmaking: Rules, Tools and Techniques ; 4: Evolution of the United Nations Climate Regime ; 5: The Framework Convention on Climate Change ; 6: Kyoto Protocol ; 7: Paris Agreement ; 8: Climate Governance beyond the United Nations Climate Regime ; 9: International Climate Change Law & Other Areas of International Regulation ; 10: Conclusion
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    Call number: PIK C 111-18-91861
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xxxiii, 415 Seiten
    Edition: First edition, Impression: 1
    ISBN: 9780198795919 (hbk.)
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: INTRODUCTION ; 1: Ius Constitutionale Commune in América Latina: A Regional Approach to Transformative Constitutionalism ; PART I: FRAMEWORK ; 2: Ius Constitutionale Commune in América Latina: A Conceptual Clarification ; 3: Ius Constitutionale Commune in América Latina: Context, Challenges, and Perspectives ; 4: The Struggle for Rights and the Ius Constitutionale Commune ; 5: A Multidimensional Approach to Equality in the Inter-American Context: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participatory Parity ; 6: Transformative Constitutionalism and the Global South: The View from South Africa ; 7: Preserving the Acquis of Transformative Constitutionalism in Times of Constitutional Crisis: Lessons from the Hungarian Case ; PART II: THE DOMESTIC ELEMENT ; 8: The Mexican Constitution of 1917: An Early Example of Transformative Constitutionalism ; 9: The Amparo as an Instrument of Ius Constitutionale Commune ; 10: The Presidential System in Latin America: A Hallmark and Challenge to a Latin American Ius Constitutionale Commune ; 11: The Roberto Gargarella ; 12: The Block of Constitutionality as the Doctrinal Pivot of a Ius Commune ; 13: Inter-Americanization: Its Legal Bases and Political Impact ; PART III: THE INTER-AMERICAN ELEMENT ; 14: The Inter-American System of Human Rights: Essential Features ; 15: The American Human Rights Navigation: Toward a Ius Commune ; 16: The Conventionality Control as a Core Mechanism of the Ius Constitutionale Commune ; 17: The Transformative Dimension of Inter-American Jurisprudence ; 18: The Impact of Inter-American Judgments by Institutional Empowerment ; 19: The Added Value of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Comparative Thoughts
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    Call number: IASS 20.95233
    Description / Table of Contents: Deliberative democracy has been the main game in contemporary political theory for two decades and has grown enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines, and in political practice. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, as well as exploring and creating links with multiple disciplines and policy practice around the globe. It provides a concise history of deliberative ideals in political thought while also discussing their philosophical origins. It locates deliberation in a political system with different spaces, publics, and venues, including parliament and courts but also governance networks, protests, mini-publics, old and new media, and everyday talk. It documents the intersections of deliberative ideals with contemporary political theory.
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    Pages: xxi, 948 Seiten
    ISBN: 9780198747369 , 9780191809699
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    Call number: IASS 19.92583
    Description / Table of Contents: Origins -- Earth system -- Geologic time -- The great acceleration -- Anthropos -- Oikos -- Politikos -- Prometheus
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    Pages: xxii, 183 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 0198792980 , 9780198792987
    Series Statement: Very short introductions 558
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    Call number: PIK M 490-19-92571 ; PIK M 490-19-92571/2
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xiv, 431 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 019882193X , 9780198821939
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1: Introduction to complex systems ; 2: Probability and random processes ; 3: Scaling ; 4: Networks ; 5: Evolutionary processes ; 6: Statistical mechanics & information theory for complex systems ; 7: The future of the science of complex systems? ; 8: Special functions and approximations
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    Call number: IASS 19.92866
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xxx, 438 Seiten , graphische Darstellungen
    Edition: Second edition
    ISBN: 9780198843504 , 9780198843498
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: PIK N 401-22-94782
    Description / Table of Contents: The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth system science. This introductory text considers how a world in which humans could evolve was created; how, as a species, we are now reshaping that world; and what a sustainable future for humanity within the Earth system might look like. Drawing on elements of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, it also asks whether Earth system science can help guide us onto a sustainable course before we alter the Earth system to the point where we destroy ourselves and our current civilisation.--
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    Pages: 153 Seiten , Diagramme
    ISBN: 978-0-19-871887-1
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    Call number: IASS 19.92042
    Description / Table of Contents: This volume defines, illustrates, and challenges the field on environmental political theory. Through a broad range of approaches, it shows how scholars have used concepts, methods, and arguments from political theory and closely related disciplines to address contemporary environmental problems.
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    Pages: xvii, 662 Seiten , Diagramm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780199685271
    Series Statement: Oxford handbooks
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    Call number: IASS 17.91113
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introductory chapters -- Introduction: Scientific and political drivers for the Paris Agreement / Andreas Fischlin, Maria Ivanova -- Foundations for the Paris Agreement / Joanna Depledge, Andrew Higham -- Negotiating history of the Paris Agreement / Jane Bulmer, Meinhard Doelle, and Daniel Klein -- Central concepts in the Paris Agreement and how they evolved / Lavanya Rajamani and Emmanuel Guérin -- Legal form of the Paris Agreement and nature of its obligations / Ralph Bodle and Sebastian Oberthür -- Part II. Analysis of the provisions of the agreement -- Contextual provisions (Preamble and Article 1) / María Pía Carazo-- Objective (Article 2.1) / Halldór Thorgeirsson -- Guiding principles and general obligation (Article 2.2 and Article 3) / Lavanya Rajamani -- Mitigation (Article 4) / Harald Winkler -- Conserving and enhancing sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, including forests (Article 5) / Antonio G M La Viña and Alaya de Leon -- Voluntary cooperation (Article 6) / Andrew Howard -- Adaptation (Article 7) / Irene Suárez Pérez and Angela Churie Kallhauge -- Loss and damage (Article 8) / Linda Siegele -- Climate finance (Article 9) / Jorge Gastelumendi and Inka Gnittke -- Technology development and transfer (Article 10) / Heleen de Conick and Ambuj Sagar -- Capacity-building (Article 11) / Crispin d'Auvergne and Matti Nummelin -- Education, training, public awareness participation and access to information (Article 12) / Jeniffer Hanna Collado -- Transparency (Article 13) / Yamide Dagnet and Kelly Levin -- Global stocktake (Article 14) / Jürgen Friedrich -- Facilitating implementation and promoting compliance (Article 15) / Yamide Dagnet and Eliza Northrop -- Institutional arrangements and final clauses (Articles 16-29) / Christina Voigt -- Part III. Concluding reflections -- Assessment of strengths and weaknesses / Meinhard Doelle -- Implications for public international law : initial considerations / María Pía Carazo -- Epilogue: Making the transition from an international agreement to a new epoch of human prosperity in one generation / Andrew Higham
    Description / Table of Contents: The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it will come into force on the 4th November, and efforts toward fulfilling its ambitious goals are already under way. The Paris Climate Agreement: Commentary and Analysis combines a comprehensive legal appraisal and critique of the new Agreement with a practical and structured commentary to all its Articles. Part I discusses the general context for the Paris Agreement, detailing the scientific, political, and social drivers behind it, providing an overview of the pre-existing regime, and tracking the history of the negotiations. It examines the evolution of key concepts such as common but differentiated responsibilities, and analyses the legal form of the Agreement and the nature of its provisions. Part II comprises individual chapters on each Article of the Agreement, with detailed commentary of the provisions which highlights central aspects from the negotiating history and the legal nature of the obligations. It describes the institutional arrangements and considerations for national implementation, providing practical advice and prospects for future development. Part III reflects on the Paris Agreement as a whole: its strengths and weaknesses, its potential for further development, and its relationship with other areas of public international law and governance. The book is an invaluable resource for academics and practitioners, policy makers, and actors in the private sector and civil society, as they negotiate the implementation of the Agreement in domestic law and policy
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    Pages: xxxii, 435 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme (teilweise farbig) , 25 cm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198803768 , 9780198789338
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    Call number: 9780191091926 (e-book)
    Type of Medium: 12
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: Second edition
    ISBN: 978-0-19-109192-6 , 9780191091926 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Note: Contents Preface Introduction to the second edition What this book is about How the book is organized Why R? Updates Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Getting and Getting Acquainted with R 1.1 Getting started 1.2 Getting R 1.3 Getting R Studio 1.4 Let's play 1.5 Usin g R as a giant calculator (the size of your computer) 1.6 Your first script 1.7 Intermezzo remarks 1.8 Important functionality: packages 1.9 Getting help 1.10 A mini-practical - some in-depth play 1.11 Some more top tips and hints for a successful first (and more) R experience Appendix 1a Mini-tutorial solutions Appendix 1b File extensions and operating systems Chapter 2: Getting Your Data into R 2.1 Getting data ready for R 2.2 Getting your data into R 2.3 Checking that your data are your data 2.4 Basic troubleshooting while importing data 2.5 Summing up Appendix Advanced activity: dealing with untidy data Chapter 3: Data Management, Manipulation, and Exploration with dplyr 3.1 Summary statistics for each variable 3.2 dplyr verbs 3.3 Subsetting 3.4 Transforming 3.5 Sorting 3.6 Mini-summary and two top tips 3.7 Calculating summary statistics about groups of your data 3.8 What have you learned ... lots Appendix 3a Comparing classic methods and dplyr Appendix 3b Advanced dplyr Chapter 4: Visualizing Your Data 4.1 The first step in every data analysis — making a picture 4.2 ggplot2: a grammar for graphics 4.3 Box-and-whisker plots 4.4 Distributions: making histograms of numeric variables 4.5 Saving your graphs for presentation, documents, etc. 4.6 Closing remarks Chapter 5: Introducing Statistics in R 5.1 Getting started doing statistics in R 5.2 x2 contingency table analysis 5.3 Two-sample t-test 5.4 Introducing ... linear models 5.5 Simple linear regression 5.6 Analysis of variance: the one-way ANOVA 5.7 Wrapping up Appendix Getting packages not on CRAN Chapter 6: Advancing Your Statistics in R 6.1 Getting started with more advanced statistics 6.2 The two-way ANOVA 6.3 Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) 6.4 Overview: an analysis workflow Chapter 7: Getting Started with Generalized Linear Models 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Counts and rates — Poisson GLMs 7.3 Doing it wrong 7.4 Doing it right — the Poisson GLM 7.5 When a Poisson GLM isn’t good for counts 7.6 Summary, and beyond simple Poisson regression Chapter 8: Pimping Your Plots: Scales and Themes in ggplot2 8.1 What you already know about graphs 8.2 Preparation 8.3 What you may want to customize 8.4 Axis labels, axis limits, and annotation 8.5 Scales 8.6 The theme 8.7 Summing up Chapter 9: Closing Remarks: Final Comments and Encouragement General Appendices Appendix 1 Data Sources Appendix 2 Further Reading Appendix 3 R Markdown Index
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    Call number: IASS 17.90838
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xxiii, 821 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780199684601
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    Call number: M 16.89793
    Description / Table of Contents: Plate tectonics caused a revolution in our understanding of the Earth. It has aided our understanding of why earthquakes and volcanoes are found in distinct locations, how oceans form and disappear, and how mountain ranges were built. In this volume, Peter Molnar explores the history and significance of plate tectonics
    Description / Table of Contents: Plate tectonics caused a revolution in our understanding of the Earth. It has aided our understanding of why earthquakes and volcanoes are found in distinct locations, how oceans form and disappear, and how mountain ranges were built. In this volume, Peter Molnar explores the history and significance of plate tectonics. --
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    Pages: xvii, 136 p , Ill., maps , 18 cm
    Edition: 1st ed
    ISBN: 9780198728269 , 0198728263
    Series Statement: Very short introductions 425
    Language: English
    Note: 1. The basic idea -- 2. Seafloor spreading and magnetic anomalies -- 3. Fracture zones and transform faults -- 4. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere -- 5. Rigid plates of lithosphere -- 6. Tectonics of continents -- 7. From whence to whither?
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    Call number: IASS 16.90594
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: ix, 204 Seiten , Karten
    ISBN: 9780198747338
    Series Statement: SIPRI research report No. 25
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    Call number: IASS 18.91713
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xxi, 410 Seiten
    Edition: First published in paperback
    ISBN: 9780198803065 , 0198803060 , 9780198724506 , 0198724500
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    Call number: IASS 20.95234
    Description / Table of Contents: Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular will is itself illusory. On the contrary, deliberative democrats have shown that people are capable of being sophisticated, creative problem solvers, given the right opportunities in the right kinds of democratic institutions. But deliberative empirical research has its own problems. In this text two leading deliberative scholars review decades of that research and reveal three important issues.
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    Pages: ix, 189 Seiten , Illustrations
    ISBN: 9780199672196
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    Call number: PIK E 821-19-92908
    Description / Table of Contents: 'Mass Exodus' is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological, historical and sociological sources, Bullivant offers a comparative study of secularization across two famously contrasting religious cultures: Britain and the USA.
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    Pages: VIII, 309 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: First edition Impression: 6
    ISBN: 9780198837947
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: 1: Looking Foolish ; 2: The Demographics of Disaffiliation ; 3: Why They Say They Leave ; 4: The Night Before ; 5: Gaudium et spes, luctus et angor ; 6: The Morning After ; 7: Unto the Third and Fourth Generations ; Epilogue: Did the Council Fail?
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: PIK B 100-21-94537
    Keywords: Volkswirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung ; Volksvermögen
    Description / Table of Contents: Why are some nations wealthy and others poor? How did the wealthy nations become rich? What are the components of wealth? How should nations manage their wealth for the future? These are among the most important questions in economics. They are also impossible to answer without defining wealth, and understanding how it can be created, destroyed, stored, and managed. National Wealth: What is Missing, Why it Matters assembles a collection of high-quality contributions to define the key concepts and address the economic and policy issues around national wealth. It considers insights from economic history, addresses the impacts of the changes to national accounting, and teases out the policy implications for both rich and poor countries and the institutions within them. Using expert analysis and theoretically grounded empirical work, this book evaluates the progress that has been made in measuring national wealth, as well as the recent developments in theory and practice which show that the change in real wealth is an essential indicator of economic progress and future well-being. Measuring the change in real wealth answers the fundamental question: How much does the stream of future well-being of the population rise or fall as a result of policy actions today? Organized into four parts, National Wealth defines the key political and economic concepts of wealth. examines the history of wealth creation and destruction, and provides a detailed analysis of the individual components of wealth before finally examining the lessons for managing wealth for sustainable national prosperity.
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    Pages: xxiv, 468 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198803720
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Call number: 18 / M 21.94608
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xi, 780 Seiten , Diagramme , 191 x 254 x 48
    Edition: Second edition
    ISBN: 9780198805090
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    Call number: IASS 17.91265
    Description / Table of Contents: A critical reflection on ICTs and 'development' -- Understanding the technologies -- The international policy arena: ICTs and Internet governance -- Partnerships in ICT4D: rhetoric and reality -- From regulation to facilitation: the role of ICT and telecommunication regulators in a converging world -- Reflections on the dark side of ICT4D -- ...In the interests of the poorest and most marginalized
    Description / Table of Contents: This book draws on the author's 15 years of practical and conceptual experience of research and practice in delivering development initiatives that effectively use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower some of the world's poorest and most marginalized people
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    Pages: viii, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780198795292
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    Call number: PIK B 020-19-92795
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xiii, 571 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 25 cm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198804406 , 9780198804390
    URL: Cover
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: Part I: An Introduction to Fortran 90 and Numerical Methods ; 1: Fortran 90: A Simple Programming Language ; 2: Numerical Solution Methods ; Part II: Computational Economics for Beginners ; 3: The Static General Equilibrium Model ; 4: Topics in Finance and Risk Management ; 5: The Life Cycle Model and Intertemporal Choics ; 6: The Overlapping Generations Model ; 7: Extending the OLG Model ; Part III: Advanced Computational Economics ; 8: Introduction to Dynamic Programming ; 9: Dynamic Macro I: Infinite Horizon Models ; 10: Life-Cycle Choices and Risk ; 11: Dynamic Macro II: The Stochastic OLG Model
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    Call number: PIK N 071-19-92127
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xvi, 260 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780198813248
    Language: English
    Note: Contents: : 1: Climate Justice: Integrating Economics and Philosophy, Ravi Kanbur and Henry Shue ; 2: Poor People on the Front Line: The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030, Julie Rozenberg and Stephane Hallegatte ; 3: Governing the Commons to Promote Global Justice: Climate Change Mitigation and Rent Taxation, Michael Jakob, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ulrike Kornek, Dominic Lenzi, and Jan Minx. ; 4: Equity Implications of the COP21 Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Adam Rose, Dan Wei, and Antonio Bento ; 5: Climate Change and Inequity: How to Think about Inequities in Different Dimensions, Nicole Hassoun and Anders Herlitz ; 6: Climate Change and Economic Self-Interest, Julie Nelson ; 7: Noncompliers' Duties, Anja Karnein ; 8: Divest-Invest: A Moral Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment, Alex Lenferna ; 9: Justice and Posterity, Simon Caney ; 10: Discounting and the Paradox of the Indefinitely Postponed Splurge, Matthew Rendall ; 11: The Controllability Precautionary Principle: Justification of a Climate Policy Goal under Uncertainty, Eugen Pissarskoi ; 12: The Social Cost of Carbon from Theory to Trump, Paul Kelleher ; 13: Long-term Climate Justice, John Nolt ; Appendix: Declaration on Climate Justice
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    Call number: 9780191079993 (e-book)
    Type of Medium: 12
    Pages: 1 online resource (254 pages)
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780191079993 (e-book)
    Language: English
    Note: Contents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction to environmental DNA (eDNA) 1.1 Definitions 1.2 A brief history of eDNA analysis 1.3 Constraints when working with eDNA 1.4 Workflow in eDNA studies and main methods used 1.5 Environmental DNA as a monitoring tool 2 DNA metabarcode choice and design 2.1 Which DNA metabarcode? 2.2 Properties of the ideal DNA metabarcode 2.3 In silica primer design and testing 2.3.1 Prerequisites 2.3.2 Reference sequences: description, filtering, and formatting for ecoPrimers 2.3.3 In silica primer design with ecoPrimers 2.3.3.1 'Ihe ecoPrimers output 2.3.4 In silica primer testing with ecoPCR 2.3.4.1 The ecoPCR output 2.3.4.2 Filtering of the ecoPCR output 2.3.4.3 Evaluation of primer conservation 2.3.4.4 Taxonomic resolution and Bs index 2.4 Examples of primer pairs available for DNA metabarcoding 3 Reference databases 3.1 Extracting reference databases from EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ 3.1.1 Downloading a local copy of EMBL 3.1.2 Identifying sequences corresponding to the relevant metabarcode 3.2 Marker-specific reference databases 3.2.1 Nuclear rRNA gene reference databases 3.2.2 Eukaryote-specific databases 3.3 Building a local reference database 3.3.1 PCR-based local reference database 3.3.2 Shotgun-based local reference database 3.4 Current challenges and future directions 4 Sampling 4.1 The cycle of eDNA in the environment 4.1.1 State and origin 4.1.2 Fate 4.1.3 Transport 4.2 Sampling design 4.2.1 Focusing on the appropriate DNA population 4.2.2 Defining the sampling strategy 4.3 Sample preservation 5 DNA extraction 5.1 From soil samples 5.2 From sediment 5.3 From litter 5.4 From fecal samples 5.5 From water samples 6 DNA amplification and multiplexing 6.1 Principle of the PCR 6.2 Which polymerase to choose? 6.3 The standard PCR reaction 6.4 The importance of including appropriate controls 6.4.1 Extraction negative controls 6.4.2 PCR negative controls 6.4.3 PCR positive controls 6.4.4 Tagging system controls 6.4.5 Internal controls 6.5 PCR optimization 6.6 How to limit the risk of contamination? 6.7 Blocking oligonucleotides for reducing the amplification of undesirable sequences 6.8 How many PCR replicates? 6.9 Multiplexing several metabarcodes within the same PCR 6.10 Multiplexing many samples on the same sequencing lane 6.10.1 Overview of the problem 6.10.2 Strategy 1: single-step PCR with Illumina adapters 6.10.3 Strategy 2: two-step PCR with Illumina adapters 6.10.4 Strategy 3: single-step PCR with tagged primers 7 DNA sequencing 7.1 Overview of the first, second, and third generations of sequencing technologies 7.2 The Illumina technology 7.2.1 Library preparation 7.2.2 Flow cell, bridge PCR, and clusters 7.2.3 Sequencing by synthesis 7.2.4 Quality scores of the sequence reads 8 DNA metabarcoding data analysis 8.1 Basic sequence handling and curation 8.1.1 Sequencing quality 8.1.1.1 The pros and cons of read quality-based filtering 8.1.1.2 Quality trimming software 8.1.2 Paired-end read pairing 8.1.3 Sequence demultiplexing 8.1.4 Sequence dereplication 8.1.5 Rough sequence curation 8.2 Sequence classification 8.2.1 Taxonomic classification 8.2.2 Unsupervised classification 8.2.3 Chimera identification 8.3 Taking advantages of experimental controls 8.3.1 Filtering out potential contaminants 8.3.2 Removing dysfunctional PCRs 8.4 General considerations on ecological analyses 8.4.1 Sampling effort and representativeness 8.4.1.1 Evaluating representativeness of the sequencing per PCR 8.4.1.2 Evaluating representativeness at the sampling unit or site level 8.4.2 Handling samples with varying sequencing depth 8.4.3 Going further and adapting the ecological models to metabarcoding 9 Single-species detection 9.1 Principle of the quantitative PCR (qPCR) 9.1.1 Recording amplicon accumulation in real time via fluorescence measurement 9.1.2 The typical amplification curve 9.1.3 Quantification of target sequences with the Ct method 9.2 Design and testing of qPCR barcodes targeting a single species 9.2.1 1he problem of specificity 9.2.2 qPCR primers and probe 9.2.3 Candidate qPCR barcodes 9.3 Additional experimental considerations 9.3.1 General issues associated with sampling, extraction, and PCR amplification 9.3.2 The particular concerns of contamination and inhibition 10 Environmental DNA for functional diversity 10.1 Functional diversity from DNA metabarcoding 10.1.1 Functional inferences 10.1.2 Targeting active populations 10.2 Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics: sequencing more than a barcode 10.2.1 General sampling constraints 10.2.1.1 Optimization of the number of samples 10.2.1.2 Enrichment in target organisms 10.2.1.3 Enrichment in functional information 10.2.2 General molecular constraints 10.2.3 From sequences to functions 10.2.3.1 Assembling (or not) a metagenome 10.2.3.2 Sorting contigs or reads in broad categories 10.2.3.3 Extracting functional information via taxonomic inferences 10.2.3.4 Functional annotation of metagenomes 11 Some early landmark studies 11.1 Emergence of the concept of eDNA and first results on microorganisms 11.2 Examining metagenomes to explore the functional information carried by eDNA 11.3 Extension to macroorganisms 12 Freshwater ecosystems 12.1 Production, persistence, transport, and delectability of eDNA in freshwater ecosystems 12.1.1 Production 12.1.2 Persistence 12.1.3 Transport/ diffusion distance 12.1.4 Detectability 12.2 Macroinvertebrates 12.3 Diatoms and microeukaryotes 12.4 Aquatic plants 12.5 Fish, amphibians, and other vertebrates 12.5.1 Species detection 12.5.2 Biomass estimates 12.6 Are rivers conveyer belts of biodiversity information? 13 Marine environments 13.1 Environmental DNA cycle and transport in marine ecosystems 13.2 Marine microbial diversity 13.3 Environmental DNA for marine macroorganisms 14 Terrestrial ecosystems 14.1 Delectability, persistence, and mobility of eDNA in soil 14.2 Plant community characterization 14.3 Earthworm community characterization 14.4 Bacterial community or metagenome characterization 14.5 Multitaxa diversity surveys 1 5 Paleoenvironments 15.1 Lake sediments 15.1.1 Pollen, macrofossils, and DNA metabarcoding 15.1.2 Plants and mammals from Lake Anteme 15.1.3 Viability in the ice-free corridor in North America 15.2 Permafrost 15.2.1 Overview of the emergence of permafrost as a source of eDNA 15.2.2 Large-scale analysis of permafrost samples for reconstructing past plant communities 15.3 Archaeological midden material 15.3.1 Bulk archaeological fish bones from Madagascar 15.3.2 Midden from Greenland to assess past human diet 16 Host-associated microbiota 16.1 DNA dynamics 16.2 Early molecular-based works 16.3 Post-holobiont works 17 Diet analysis 17.1 Some seminal diet studies 17.1.1 Proof of concept-analyzing herbivore diet using next-generation sequencing 17.1.2 Assessing the efficiency of conservation actions in Bialowieza forest 17.1.3 Characterizing carnivore diet, or how to disentangle predator and prey eDNA 17.1.4 Analyzing an omnivorous diet, or integrating several diets in a single one 17.2 Methodological and experimental specificities of eDNA diet analyses 17.2.1 eDNAsources 17.2.1.1 Feces 17.2.1.2 Gut content 17.2.1.3 Whole body 17.2.2 Quantitative aspects 17.2.2.1 Relationship between the amount of ingested food and DNA quantity in the sample 17.2.2.2 Quantifying DNA with PCR and next-generation sequencing 17.2.2.3 Empirical correction of abundances 17.2.3 Diet as a sample of the existing biodiversity 17.2.4 Problematic diets 18 Analysis of bulk samples 18.1 What is a bulk sample? 18.2 Case studies 18.2.1 Bulk insect samples for biodiversity monitoring 18.2.2 Nematode diversity in tropical rainforest 18.2.3 Marine metawan diversity in benthic ecosystems 18.3 Metabarcoding markers for bulk samples 18.4 Alternative strategies 19 The future of eDNA metabarcoding 19.1 PCR-based approaches 19.1.1 Singl
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    Keywords: electrical resistivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Recent Advances by Adel El-Shahat --- Chapter 2: Electrical Resistivity Sensing Methods and Implications by Marios Sophocleous --- Chapter 3: Resistivity Model of Frozen Soil and High-Density Resistivity Method for Exploration Discontinuous Permafrost by Wei Shan, Zhaoguang Hu, Ying Guo, Chengcheng Zhang and Yao Liu --- Chapter 4: Measurement of the Electrical Resistivity for Unconventional Structures by Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu and Lipan Laurențiu Constantin --- Chapter 5: Estimation of Hydrological Parameters from Geoelectrical Measurements by Héctor José Peinado Guevara, Jaime Herrera Barrientos, Omar Delgado Rodríguez, Víctor Manuel Peinado Guevara, Omar Llanes Cárdenas and María Ladrón De Guevara Torres --- Chapter 6: Assessment of Cryoprotectant Concentration by Electrical Conductivity Measurement and Its Applications in Cryopreservation by Zhiquan Shu, Hsiu-Hung Chen, Xiaoming Zhou and Dayong Gao
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    Keywords: mass spectrometry ; analytical chemistry
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Deep Ultraviolet Single-Photon Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Zhixun Luo --- Chapter 2: Interpretation of Mass Spectra by Teodor Octavian Nicolescu --- Chapter 3: Performing Quantitative Determination of Low-Abundant Proteins by Targeted Mass Spectrometry Liquid Chromatography by Tore Vehus --- Chapter 4: Pesticides and Their Degradation Products Including Metabolites: Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Methods by Renata Raina-Fulton, Nicole Dunn and Zhen Xie --- Chapter 5: Mass Spectrometry for the Sensitive Analysis of Intracellular Nucleotides and Analogues by Kateřina Mičová, David Friedecký and Tomáš Adam --- Chapter 6: LC-HRMS for the Identification of β-Carboline and Canthinone Alkaloids Isolated from Natural Sources by Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Aline de S. Ramos, José Luiz P. Ferreira, Arith R. dos Santos, Jefferson D. da Cruz, Adélia Viviane M. De Luna, Vinicius Vaz C. Nery, Iasmim C. de Lima, Marcelo Henrique da C. Chaves and Jefferson Rocha de A. Silva --- Chapter 7: Applications of Mass Spectrometric Techniques to the Analysis of Fuels and Lubricants by David W. Johnson --- Chapter 8: Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Endogenous Steroids and Steroid Abuse in (Race) Horses and Human Athletes by Decloedt Anneleen, Van Landschoot Anita and Vanhaecke Lynn --- Chapter 9: Use of Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Formaldehyde in Samples Potentially Toxic to Humans: A Brief Review by Aline de Souza, Isabela Cristina Matos Cunha, Júnior Olair Chagas, Elisandra Bárbara Pontes Carlos, Luana Lacerda Santos, Thamires Ráfaga Campos e Figueredo, Lucília Alves Linhares Machado, Vanessa Moreira Osório, Karla Moreira Vieira and Fabiana Aparecida Lobo
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    Keywords: nanotechnology ; nanomaterials
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Graphene and Active Metamaterials: Theoretical Methods and Physical Properties by Marios Mattheakis, Giorgos P. Tsironis and Efthimios Kaxiras --- Chapter 2: Magneto-Plasmonics and Optical Activity in Graphene-Based Nanowires by Dmitry A. Kuzmin, Igor V. Bychkov, Vladimir G. Shavrov and Vasily V. Temnov --- Chapter 3: Nanoplasmonics in Metallic Nanostructures and Dirac Systems by Hari P. Paudel, Alireza Safaei and Michael N. Leuenberger --- Chapter 4: Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Effects of Metal Nanoparticles Composites by Kwang-Hyon Kim, Anton Husakou and Joachim Herrmann --- Chapter 5: Understanding the Physical Behavior of Plasmonic Antennas Through Computational Electromagnetics by Xuezhi Zheng, Guy A.E. Vandenbosch and Victor V. Moshchalkov --- Chapter 6: Plasmonic Field Distribution of Homo- and Hetero Dimeric Ag and Au Nanoparticles by Nasrin Hooshmand --- Chapter 7: Optical Absorption and Thermal Effects of Plasmonic Nanostructures by Jingzhi Wu and Yanhong Wang --- Chapter 8: Infrared Solar Thermal-Shielding Applications Based on Oxide Semiconductor Plasmonics by Hiroaki Matsui and Hitoshi Tabata --- Chapter 9: Surface Plasmonics and Its Applications in Infrared Sensing by Guiru Gu, Xuejun Lu, Thitikorn Kemsri and Yingjie Zhang --- Chapter 10: Equivalent Nanocircuit Theory and Its Applications by Qing Zhang, Jun You and Chengpu Liu --- Chapter 11: Nanoplasmonic Waveguides Filled with Electro-Optical Materials by Montasir Qasymeh --- Chapter 12: Impedance Matching Analysis of Cylindrical Plasmonic Nanoantennas Fed by Optical Transmission Lines by Karlo Queiroz da Costa, Janilson Leão Souza and Victor Dmitriev --- Chapter 13: Tapered Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Energy Harvesting Applications by Youssef Mamdouh El-Toukhy, Mohamed Farhat Othman Hameed, Mohamed Hussein and Salah Sabry Ahmed Obayya --- Chapter 14: Plasmonics Devoted to Photocatalytic Applications in Liquid, Gas, and Biological Environments by Carlos J. Bueno-Alejo, Adriana Arca-Ramos and Jose L. Hueso --- Chapter 15: Plasmonic Nanostructures as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Substrate for Protein Biomarker Sensing by Dan Li and Yuling Wang --- Chapter 16: SERS Application for Analysis of Live Single Cell by Waleed Ahmed El-Said, Hyeon-Yeol Cho and Jeong-Woo Choi --- Chapter 17: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance for Optical Fiber-Sensing Applications by Pedro J. Rivero, Javier Goicoechea and Francisco J. Arregui --- Chapter 18: Laser Annealing as a Platform for Plasmonic Nanostructuring by Nikolaos Kalfagiannis, Demosthenes C. Koutsogeorgis, Elefterios Lidorikis and Panos Patsalas --- Chapter 19: Fabrication of Plasmonic Crystalline Thin Film of Titanium Nitride (TiN) by Pulsed Laser Deposition with Third Harmonic of Nd:YAG Laser and Its Spectroscopic Analyses by Yasushi Oshikane
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    Keywords: distillation ; chemical engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Steady-State Modeling of Equilibrium Distillation by Vilmar Steffen and Edson Antonio da Silva --- Chapter 2: Short-Cut Methods for Multicomponent Batch Distillation by A. Narváez-García, J.C. Zavala-Loría, A. Ruiz-Marín and Y. Canedo- López --- Chapter 3: Mathematical Modelling of Batch Distillation Columns: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Linear and Fuzzy Models by Adriana del Carmen Téllez-Anguiano, Mario Heras-Cervantes, Juan Anzurez-Marín, Gerardo Marx Chávez-Campos and José Antonio Gutiérrez Gnecchi --- Chapter 4: Distillation: Basic Test in Quality Control of Automotive Fuels by Ma Mercedes del Coro Fernández-Feal, Luis R. Sánchez-Fernández and Blanca Sánchez-Fernández --- Chapter 5: Enhanced Distillation Under Infrared Characteristic Radiation by Kuo-Ting Wang, M. Quinn Brewster and Wei-Hsiang Lai --- Chapter 6: Distillation Techniques in the Fruit Spirits Production by Nermina Spaho --- Chapter 7: Fractional Distillation of Organic Liquid Compounds Produced by Catalytic Cracking of Fats, Oils, and Grease by C. C. Fereira, E. C. Costa, D. A. R. de Castro, M. S. Pereira, A. A. Mâncio, M. C. Santos, D. E. L. Lhamas, S. A. P. da Mota, M. E. Araújo, Luiz E. P. Borges and N. T. Machado --- Chapter 8: Energy Evaluation of the Use of an Absorption Heat Pump in Water Distillation Process by Rosenberg J. Romero and Sotsil Silva-Sotelo --- Chapter 9: Solar Membrane Distillation: Use of a Helically Coiled Fiber by Adel Zrelli
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    Keywords: seed biology ; plant seeds
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Roles of the Environment in Plant Life-History Trade-offs by Yang Liu, Jeffrey L. Walck and Yousry A. El-Kassaby --- Chapter 2: Decoding the Transcriptome of Rice Seed During Development by Arunima Mahto, Iny Elizebeth Mathew and Pinky Agarwal --- Chapter 3: Transcriptome (ESTs) of Avocado “Native” Mexicano Early Seed Development Shows Abundance of Regulatory, Antioxidant and Defense Genes by Luis María Suárez-Rodríguez, Fernando Sánchez-Albarrán, Huber León-Corona and Rodolfo López-Gómez --- Chapter 4: Identification and Mapping of Phosphorylated Isoforms of the Major Storage Protein of Potato Based on Two- Dimensional Electrophoresis by Javier Bernal, María López-Pedrouso, Daniel Franco, Susana Bravo, Lucio García and Carlos Zapata --- Chapter 5: Seed Dormancy by Mustafa Yildiz, Ramazan Beyaz, Mehtap Gursoy, Murat Aycan, Yusuf Koc and Mustafa Kayan --- Chapter 6: Characterization of Genotype by Planting Date Effects on Runner-Type Peanut Seed Germination and Vigor Response to Temperature by Timothy L. Grey, Charles Y. Chen, Russell Nuti, Walter Scott Monfort and George Cutts III --- Chapter 7: Impact of Conditions of Water Supply on the Germination of Tomato and Pepper Seeds by Yekaterina Shapira, Edward Bormashenko, Gene Whyman, Bat- Chen Lubin and Elyashiv Drori --- Chapter 8: Metabolic Processes During Seed Germination by Awatif S. Ali and Alaaeldin A. Elozeiri --- Chapter 9: Free Radicals and Antioxidant System in Seed Biology by Fadime Eryılmaz Pehlivan --- Chapter 10: Anatomical and Chemical Insights into the White Clover (Trifolium repens L.) Seed Coat Associated to Water Permeability by Alberto Aníbal Galussi and María Esther Moya --- Chapter 11: Morphological Studies on Seeds of Scrophulariaceae s.l. and Their Systematic Significance by Balkrishna Ghimire, Go Eun Choi, Hayan Lee, Kweon Heo and Mi Jin Jeong --- Chapter 12: Seed Transmission of Tobamoviruses: Aspects of Global Disease Distribution by Aviv Dombrovsky and Elisheva Smith --- Chapter 13: Biology of Seed Vigor in the Light of -omics Tools by Isaac Oludayo Daniel --- Chapter 14: The Potential of Garden Cress (Lepidium sativum L.) Seeds for Development of Functional Foods by Chandra Shekhar Singh and Vinod Kumar Paswan --- Chapter 15: Genetic Improvement of Oilseed Crops Using Modern Biotechnology by Diego Villanueva-Mejia and Javier Correa Alvarez --- Chapter 16: Application of Mechanics to Plant Seeds as a Granular or Particulate Material by Michal Petrů and Ivan Mašín
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    Keywords: cobalt ; synthesis ; processing; characterization
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: General Aspects of the Cobalt Chemistry by Yasemin Yildiz --- Chapter 2: Synthesis, Processing, and Characterization of the Cobalt Alloys with Silicon Addition by Petrica Vizureanu, Mirabela Georgiana Minciuna, Gianina Iovan and Simona Stoleriu --- Chapter 3: Synthesis of Cobalt-Based Nanomaterials from Organic Precursors by Maria Smyrnioti and Theophilos Ioannides --- Chapter 4: Hydrothermally Produced Cobalt Oxide Nanostructures at Different Temperatures and Effect on Phase Transition Temperature and Threshold Voltage of Nematic Liquid Crystal Host by Hasan Eskalen, Süleyman Kerli and Şükrü Özgan --- Chapter 5: Substitution and Redox Properties of Some Organoisocyanide Cobalt(II) Complexes by Olayinka A. Oyetunji, Godiraone Tatolo, Banyaladzi D. Paphane and Clifford A. L. Becker --- Chapter 6: Effect of Cobalt on Morphology of Microhole Formed by Micropunching by Kelvii Wei Guo and Hon Yuen Tam --- Chapter 7: A Review of the Radionuclide, Cobalt-60, as a Fine-Sediment Tracer by Philip Greenwood
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    Keywords: resonance ; vibrations ; electromagnetic resonance
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Magnetic Resonance by Betul Çalişkan and Ali Cengiz Çalişkan --- Chapter 2: Magneto-Elastic Resonance: Principles, Modeling and Applications by Yannick Le Bras and Jean-Marc Greneche --- Chapter 3: Stochastic Resonance and Related Topics by Jiří Náprstek and Cyril Fischer --- Chapter 4: Chaotic, Stochastic Resonance, and Anti-Resonance Phenomena in Optics by Vladimir L. Kalashnikov --- Chapter 5: Optimization of Double-Well Bistable Stochastic Resonance Systems and Its Applications in Cognitive Radio Networks by Di He --- Chapter 6: Resonances in Left-Handed Waves Developed in Nonlinear Electrical Lattices by Koichi Narahara --- Chapter 7: Introduction to Parametric and Autoparametric Resonance by Lukas C. Kurmann --- Chapter 8: Resonance Effect of Nanofibrous Membrane for Sound Absorption Applications by Klara Kalinova --- Chapter 9: Modal Analysis of Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Coupled to Periodic Array of Core-Shell Metallic Nanoparticles by Nadson Welkson Pereira de Souza, Jefferson Souza Costa, Rafael Correa dos Santos, André Felipe Souza da Cruz, Tommaso Del Rosso and Karlo Queiroz da Costa --- Chapter 10: Fano Resonance in High-Permittivity Objects by Xianghong Kong, Lina Qiu and Gaobiao Xiao --- Chapter 11: Laser-Induced Fano Resonance in Condensed Matter Physics by Ken-ichi Hino, Yohei Watanabe, Nobuya Maeshima and Muneaki Hase --- Chapter 12: Resonances and Exceptional Broadcasting Conditions by Juan Manuel Velázquez-Arcos, Alejandro Pérez-Ricardez, Ricardo Teodoro Páez-Hernández and Jaime Granados-Samaniego
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    Keywords: clays ; clay minerals ; mineralogy
    Description / Table of Contents: This book presents the state-of-the-art results of characterization of clays, clay minerals and ceramic materials based on clay minerals. The main goal of this work is to contribute to the rationalization of some important results obtained in the open area of clays and clay materials characterization. Moreover, this book also provides a comprehensive account on polymer and biopolymer-clay nanocomposites, use of clay as adsorption materials for industrial pollutants, ceramic materials in cultural heritage and physical-chemistry aspects of clay and clay minerals aqueous dispersions. This book will be beneficial for students, teachers and researchers of many areas who are interested to expand their knowledge about clays and its derivates in the fields of Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Environmental Science, Industrial Remediation, Cultural Heritage, etc.
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    Keywords: sediment transport ; reservoir sedimentation ; reservoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Sediment transport is a significant part of the scientific area of river hydraulics. Therefore, the first section of the present book presents effects of sediment transport on hydraulic structures, that concern alluvial channel hydraulics. The second section refers to a serious consequence of river sediment transport, namely reservoir sedimentation. Sediment transported in a river originates from the corresponding basin, that is eroded by rainfall water. Hence, the quantification of soil erosion is also addressed in the second section. While soil erosion is the original physical process that causes reservoir sedimentation, the latter process may increase coastal erosion in case that the river feeding the reservoir, discharges its water into the sea. So, the effect of reservoir sedimentation on coastal erosion is further treated in the second section. Finally, the third section of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of local scour around bridge piers, in particular the conditions of ice cover.
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    Keywords: hydrogen ; renewable energy
    Description / Table of Contents: Hydrogen, as an energy carrier, is widely regarded as a potential cost-effective, renewable, and clean energy alternative to fossil fuels in order to mitigate the energy shortage and environmental pollution that are currently being faced. The rapid development of advanced materials in hydrogen production, storage, and utilization has opened up a new avenue for the conversion and utilization of hydrogen energy. This book summarizes the current research progress in these areas and is expected to aid in the development and design of advanced materials to improve hydrogen production, storage, and utilization.
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    Keywords: petroleum science ; petrochemicals ; petrochemical industry
    Description / Table of Contents: The petrochemical industry is an important area in our pursuits for economic growth, employment generation, and basic needs. It is a huge field that encompasses many commercial petrochemical and polymer-enabled products. The book is designed to help the reader, particularly students and researchers of petroleum science and engineering, to understand synthesis, processing, mechanics, and simulation of the petroleum processes. The selection of topics addressed and the examples, tables, and graphs used to illustrate them are governed, to a large extent, by the fact that this book is aimed primarily at petroleum science and engineering technologists. Undoubtedly, this book contains must read materials for students, engineers, and researchers working in the area of petrochemicals and petroleum and provides valuable insights into the related synthesis, processing, mechanisms, and simulation. This book is concise, self-explanatory, informative, and cost-effective.
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    Keywords: pollution ; biodegradation ; bioremediation
    Description / Table of Contents: This book contains a collection of research works focused on the biodegradation of different types of pollutants, both in water and solids. The book is divided in three major sections: A) Biodegradation of organic pollutants in solids and wastewater, B) Biodegradation of complex pollutants, and C) Novel technologies in biodegradation and bioremediation.
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    Keywords: renewable energy
    Description / Table of Contents: The development of renewable energy technologies (such as wind, solar, and biomass) has accelerated the establishment of a low-carbon society. This book provides a glimpse of some recent advancements in modelling, control, electrical generators and power converters, and social and political aspects of utilising these renewable sources of energy. It is aimed to provide some latest references for the readers who are interested in research work, energy policies, and social dimensions of renewable energy.
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    Keywords: bioenergy ; biofuel ; energy resources ; renewable energy
    Description / Table of Contents: Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the possibilities for production and use of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts. Issues related to environment, food, and energy present serious challenges to the success and stability of nations. The challenge to provide energy to a rapidly increasing global population has made it imperative to find new technological routes to increase production of energy while also considering the biosphere's ability to regenerate resources. The bioenergy and biofuels are resources that may provide solutions to these critical challenges. Divided into 25 discreet parts, the book covers topics on characterization, production, and uses of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts. Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels provides an insight into future developments in each field and extensive bibliography. It will be an essential resource for researchers and academic and industry professionals in the energy field.
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    Keywords: global warming ; global change
    Description / Table of Contents: Global warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. It is becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests. Whatever the uncertainties of climate models are, mankind has to strive very fast toward reduction in the huge amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere in order to preserve natural resources and living organisms by introducing new advances on alternative fuels and other related technologies. This book presents the state-of-the-science fundamentals on the origin of Global Warming. The aim of the book is to create awareness among the energy engineers, academicians, researchers, industry personnel and society as a whole to help to stop the impact of climate change. In this book, chapters received from various authors are placed in three sub- sections - Causes of Global Warming, Impacts / Threats / Consequences of Global Warming and Remedies to the Global Warming.
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    Keywords: solar radiation ; solar physics ; astronomy ; astrophysics ; energy engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Two essential components of solar energy which are derivable from the sun-radiant light (passive solar power) and heat (active solar powers) have been harnessed for decades using a range of continuously-evolving and cutting-edge technologies. Such technologies include solar heating, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and photo emitters. Recently, there has been active research in solar energy resources due to improvements in solar panel geometry, photo-cell materials, glazing and panel orientation. Equally, more rigorous methods of modeling inter-reflections within curvilinear surfaces are now being evaluated for simplified analytical evaluations. Therefore, this book, Solar Radiation Applications, presents the outcomes of selective and classic works on the optimization of these essential fields in active solar energy research.
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    Keywords: agriculture
    Description / Table of Contents: This book is a collection of chapters, concerning the developments within the Agroecology field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors pertinent to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the book's topics and objectives. The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.
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    ISBN: 9789535121305
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    Keywords: materials science ; fluids
    Description / Table of Contents: Ionic liquids continue to attract a great deal of research attention in an even increasing number of areas, including more traditional areas such as synthesis (organic and materials) and physical properties studies and predictions, as well as less obvious areas such as lubrication and enzymatic transformations. In this volume, recent advances in a number of these different areas are reported and reviewed, thus granting some appreciation for the future that ionic liquids research holds, and affording inspiration for those who have not previously considered the application of ionic liquids in their area of interest.
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    ISBN: 9789535121220
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    Keywords: environmental sciences ; storage ; fuels
    Description / Table of Contents: This book presents an analysis of the results of studies of motor fuels ageing, conducted in laboratory and model conditions, in terms of building a system operating on-line, allowing continuous assessment of the operational usability of gasoline and diesel fuels, including those containing the addition of ethanol and FAME, respectively. This research was carried out in the framework of the project: "A system for the continuous control of the degree and rate of the liquid fuels ageing process during storage, which received co-funding from the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programme "Innovative Economy". The book presents an evaluation of the impact of fuel production processes on its stability and an analysis of changes in normative parameters of fuels during their storage and use. The book presents also the results of tests on the corrosive effects of fuels during storage processes.
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  • 58
    Keywords: agriculture ; toxicity ; agrochemicals ; hazards
    Description / Table of Contents: This edited book, Toxicity and Hazard of Agrochemicals, is intended to provide an overview of toxicology that examines the hazardous effects of common agrochemicals employed every day in our agricultural practices. Furthermore, it is hoped that the information in the present book will be of value to those directly engaged in the handling and use of agrochemicals and that this book will continue to meet the expectations and needs of all interested in the different aspects of human and environmental risk toxicities.
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    ISBN: 9789535121459
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    Keywords: materials science
    Description / Table of Contents: Assessing and improving nuclear material performance is a crucial subject for the sustainability of the nuclear energy and radioactive isotope supplies. This book aims to present research efforts used to identify nuclear materials performances in different areas. The contributions of esteemed international experts have covered important research aspects in fission and fusion technologies and naturally occurring radioactive materials management. The authors introduced current and anticipated trends toward better performances and mitigating challenges for commercial application of innovative technologies, biological remediation of mine effluents, nuclear fuel performance in power and research fission reactors, gamma ray spectrometer calibration, and recent advances in understanding the performance of tungsten composite in fusion reactor environment.
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    ISBN: 9789535124481
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    Keywords: materials science ; biomaterials
    Description / Table of Contents: The structural properties of materials play a fundamental role in the determination of their suitability for a specific application. This book is intended as a contribution to the efforts to increase the knowledge of the influence exerted on the properties of materials by their crystalline or amorphous structure. To this aim, some of the materials that are most promising for their use in different technological fields have been studied, namely graphene, titanium oxide, several types of functional metal oxides, porphyrinic crystalline solids, plasma deposited polymers, amorphous silicon, as well as hydrogenated amorphous carbon. These materials have been presented by the authors for their use in different applications, including microelectronics, photonics, and biomedicine.
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    ISBN: 9789535124467
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    Keywords: MATLAB
    Description / Table of Contents: The book presents a collection of MATLAB-based chapters of various engineering background. Instead of giving exhausting amount of technical details, authors were rather advised to explain relations of their problems to actual MATLAB concepts. So, whenever possible, download links to functioning MATLAB codes were added and a potential reader can do own testing. Authors are typically scientists with interests in modeling in MATLAB. Chapters include image and signal processing, mechanics and dynamics, models and data identification in biology, fuzzy logic, discrete event systems and data acquisition systems.
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    ISBN: 9789535124603
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  • 62
    Keywords: development ; capability ; reform ; government ; poverty ; services ; policy ; PDIA ; politics ; foreign aid
    Description / Table of Contents: Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability. This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity-building efforts. The book then analyzes this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back—particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look more capable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem-driven iterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past. | Table of Contents Introduction: "The Long Voyage of Discovery" Part 1. The Problem: The Creation and Consolidation of Capability Traps 1: The Big Stuck in State Capability 2: Looking Like a State: The Seduction of Isomorphic Mimicry 3: Premature Load Bearing: Doing Too Much Too Soon 4: Capability for Policy Implementation 5: What Type of Organization Capability is Needed? Part 2. A Strategy for Action: Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) 6: The Challenge of Building (Real) State Capability for Implementation 7: Doing Problem-Driven Work 8: The Searchframe: Doing Experimental Iterations 9: Managing Your Authorizing Environment 10: Building State Capability at Scale Through Groups
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    ISBN: 9780198807186
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    Keywords: renewable energy ; wind energy ; wind turbines
    Description / Table of Contents: Renewable energies constitute excellent solutions to both the increase of energy consumption and environment problems. Among these energies, wind energy is very interesting. Wind energy is the subject of advanced research. In the development of wind turbine, the design of its different structures is very important. It will ensure: the robustness of the system, the energy efficiency, the optimal cost and the high reliability. The use of advanced control technology and new technology products allows bringing the wind energy conversion system in its optimal operating mode. Different strategies of control can be applied on generators, systems relating to blades, etc. in order to extract maximal power from the wind. The goal of this book is to present recent works on design, control and applications in wind energy conversion systems.
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    Keywords: water ; hydrology ; hydrogeology ; ground water
    Description / Table of Contents: Water inside the earth, the groundwater and the invisible resource is the most important source of survival of mankind on this globe. Part of the hydrological cycle between entry (percolation and recharge) and exit (natural or forced extraction and discharge), the groundwater fascinates all: engineers, hydrogeologists, agriculturists, environmentalists, scientists, academia, resource managers and domestic and industrial users. This book is the outcome of efforts of those eminent authors who despite their fascination were able to write upon some important facet of groundwater flow and the transport of pollutants with it. The dimensions covered range from simple descriptive narratives; to expose of analytical methods; to complex mathematical treatment; to numerical simulations and computer modeling. All areas have been touched upon for the sake of general readers, students, professional engineers and scientists.
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    Keywords: landscape ecology ; anthropogenic impacts
    Description / Table of Contents: This book has been written to present major and efficient applications in landscape ecology, as well as to propose a solid action for this category of topics. The book aims to illustrate various treatment methods of the land-use models impact on landscape ecology creation. The book is divided into three parts: Part I: Ecological interpretation of land-use act - in this part, ecosystem and land use turn out to be a significant factor in the process of creating an ecological landscape. Part II: Landscape district in applied ecological analysis - this part attempts to illustrate the best possible model of analysis integrated with landscape in practical case studies. Part III: The anthropogenic impacts on landscape creation - this part discusses the human impact on landscape creation.
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    ISBN: 9789535125143
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    Keywords: empirical modeling ; parametric models
    Description / Table of Contents: Empirical modeling has been a useful approach for the analysis of different problems across numerous areas/fields of knowledge. As it is known, this type of modeling is particularly helpful when parametric models, due to various reasons, cannot be constructed. Based on different methodologies and approaches, empirical modeling allows the analyst to obtain an initial understanding of the relationships that exist among the different variables that belong to a particular system or process. In some cases, the results from empirical models can be used in order to make decisions about those variables, with the intent of resolving a given problem in the real-life applications. This book entitled Empirical Modeling and Its Applications consists of six (6) chapters.
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    ISBN: 9789535124948
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    Keywords: maar ; volcanoes ; volcanic activities
    Description / Table of Contents: This Book of Abstracts covers the abstracts presented at the 6th International Maar Conference (6IMC) in Changchun (China). The 6IMC conference sessions are focused on Maar and Environment Change, covering a wide spectrum of topics including: characteristics, mechanism, modeling and geological background of Monogenetic volcanic activities; volcanic evolution and spatial distribution regulation, resources, disaster, detecting, monitoring and societal responses of volcanic activity.
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    ISBN: 9789535125419
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    Keywords: crystallography
    Description / Table of Contents: The aim of this book has been to explore the variety of phenomena associated with the major forms of the material, while laying the foundation for a clear and detailed working and understanding of the materials. We tried to present new types of advanced materials, which are currently a hot topic, and provide readers with a selective review of important improvements in the field. I believe that every chapter in this book presents the progress in the subject and describes the latest advances in microporous and mesoporous materials.
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    ISBN: 9789535125839
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    Keywords: heat transfer ; heat conduction
    Description / Table of Contents: In the wake of energy crisis due to rapid growth of industries, the efficient heat transfer could play a vital role in energy saving. Industries, household equipment, transportation, offices, etc., all are dependent on heat exchanging equipment. Considering this, the book has incorporated different chapters on heat transfer phenomena, analytical and experimental heat transfer investigations, heat transfer enhancement and applications.
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    ISBN: 9789535121466
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    Keywords: environmental pollution ; pollutants toxicology ; xenobiotics
    Description / Table of Contents: This edited book, Emerging Pollutants in the Environment Current and Further Implications, includes overviews by significant researchers on the topic of emerging pollutants toxicology, which covers the hazardous effects of common emerging xenobiotics employed in our every day anthropogenic activities. We hope that this book will meet the expectations and needs of all those who are interested in the negative implications of several emerging pollutants on living species.
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    ISBN: 9789535121602
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    Keywords: sustainable manufacturing ; sustainable energy ; sustainability
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Sustainable Solid Waste Recycling by Ahmad K. Jassim --- Chapter 2: Sustainable Power Technology: A Viable Sustainable Energy Solution by Kikelomo Ijagbemi --- Chapter 3: Sustainable Maintenance Practices and Skills for Competitive Production System by Adeyeri Michael Kanisuru --- Chapter 4: Interventions to Skills Development in the Automotive Manufacturing Sector of South Africa by Opeyeolu Timothy Laseinde and Grace Mukondeleli Kanakana --- Chapter 5: Designing and Developing New VET Curricula to Address Skills Gaps in the Aeronautics Industry by Rosa Maria Arnaldo Valdés, Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador and Alvaro Rodriguez Sanz
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    ISBN: 9789535136460
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    Keywords: knowledge management ; KM ; organization ; knowledge creation ; knowledge sharing ; dissemination
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Tacit Knowledge Sharing: A Literature Review Applied to the Context of the Brazilian Judiciary by José Roberto Ferretti and Maria da Conceição L. Afonso --- Chapter 2: Knowledge Sharing and Human Resource Development in Innovative Organizations by Michael Beyerlein, Rachele Collins, Shinhee Jeong, Christi Phillips, Suravee Sunalai and Lei Xie --- Chapter 3: Network Market Orientation, Knowledge Management and Born Globals’ Competitiveness by Diego Monferrer Tirado and Marta Estrada Guillén --- Chapter 4: Knowledge Management Hybrid Strategy with People, Technology and Process Pillars by Ivy Chan --- Chapter 5: Knowledge Management for Informally Structured Domains: Challenges and Proposals by Karla Olmos-Sánchez and Jorge Rodas-Osollo --- Chapter 6: Performance Management by Causal Mapping: An Application Field of Knowledge Management by Sarah Kölbel, Wolfgang Ossadnik and Stefan Gergeleit --- Chapter 7: Intelligent Knowledge Retrieval from Industrial Repositories by Antonio Martin, Mauricio Burbano and Carlos León --- Chapter 8: Affective Technology Acceptance Model: Extending Technology Acceptance Model with Positive and Negative Affect by Angela Lee Siew Hoong, Lip Sam Thi and Mei-Hua Lin --- Chapter 9: The Impact of the Internet of Things to Value Added in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations by Maja Meško, Jana Suklan and Vasja Roblek --- Chapter 10: Knowledge Management Trends in Biotechnology in Brazil by Maria de Fátima Ebole Santana --- Chapter 11: Exploring the Impact of Online Clinical Guidelines on Individual Knowledge Management Behaviors and Individual Net Benefits by Shofang Chang, Tain-Junn Cheng and Chung-Hsien Chan --- Chapter 12: Knowledge-Based Assignment Model for Allocation of Employees in Engineering-to-Order Production by Matjaz Roblek, Maja Zajec and Benjamin Urh --- Chapter 13: An Examination of the Knowledge Management Process in the Emerging Chinese Hotel Industry by Tommy Wong, Linda French and Mark Wickham --- Chapter 14: Widening the Understanding of Risk Approaches by Comparing Definitions from Different Disciplines by Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff, Peter Wiedemann, Balázs Ádám, Joachim Schüz, Kristian Breum Ølgaard, Pernille Tanggaard Andersen, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama and Jesper Bo Nielsen
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    Keywords: energy ; natural gas ; regasification ; fracturing ; utilization ; shale gas
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Recovery from the LNG Regasification Process by Roberto Bruno, Piero Bevilacqua and Natale Arcuri --- Chapter 2: Concepts for Regasification of LNG in Industrial Parks by Tatiana Morosuk, Stefanie Tesch and George Tsatsaronis --- Chapter 3: Improvement of Hydraulic Fracture Conductivity Using Nanoparticles by Reza Barati and Charles Chempakathinal Bose --- Chapter 4: Experiment and Evaluation of Natural Gas Hydration in a Spraying Reactor by Wenfeng Hao --- Chapter 5: Gas Well Testing by Freddy Humberto Escobar --- Chapter 6: Catalytic Natural Gas Utilization on Unconventional Oil Upgrading by Peng He and Hua Song --- Chapter 7: Compressed Natural Gas Direct Injection: Comparison Between Homogeneous and Stratified Combustion by Shahrir Abdullah, Wan Mohd Faizal Wan Mahmood, Saad Aljamali and Azhari Shamsudeen --- Chapter 8: Biomass as an Alternative for Gas Production by Liliana Pampillón-González and José Ramón Laines Canepa --- Chapter 9: Shale Gas in Poland by Jadwiga A. Jarzyna, Maria Bała, Paulina I. Krakowska, Edyta Puskarczyk, Anna Strzępowicz, Kamila Wawrzyniak-Guz, Dariusz Więcław and Jerzy Ziętek --- Chapter 10: An Overview of Principles and Designs of Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments and an Inquiry into the Influence of Rock Permeability and Strength on Failure Mode by Kenneth Imo-Imo Eshiet and Yong Sheng
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    ISBN: 9789535134343
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    Keywords: Titanium dioxide ; application
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Titanium Dioxide as Food Additive by Marie-Hélène Ropers, Hélène Terrisse, Muriel Mercier-Bonin and Bernard Humbert --- Chapter 2: Application of Nanotechnology in Agriculture: Assessment of TiO2 Nanoparticle Effects on Barley by Alessandro Mattiello and Luca Marchiol --- Chapter 3: Composite Calcium Phosphate/Titania Scaffolds in Bone Tissue Engineering by Massimiliano Dapporto, Anna Tampieri and Simone Sprio --- Chapter 4: Titanium Dioxide in Sunscreen by Megha Trivedi and Jenny Murase --- Chapter 5: 1D Titania Nanoarchitecture as Bioactive and Photoactive Coatings for Modern Implants: A Review by Aleksandra Radtke --- Chapter 6: Anticorrosive, Antimicrobial, and Bioactive Titanium Dioxide Coating for Surface-modified Purpose on Biomedical Material by Hsi-Kai Tsou and Ping-Yen Hsieh --- Chapter 7: Photocatalytic Treatment Techniques using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Antibiotic Removal from Water by António Armando Lima Sampaio Duarte and Maria Teresa Pessoa Amorim --- Chapter 8: Recent Overview on the Abatement of Pesticide Residues in Water by Photocatalytic Treatment Using TiO2 by Nuria Vela, Gabriel Pérez-Lucas, José Fenoll and Simón Navarro --- Chapter 9: Heat Transfer Applications of TiO2 Nanofluids by Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Usman Sajid and Adeel Arshad --- Chapter 10: TiO2: A Critical Interfacial Material for Incorporating Photosynthetic Protein Complexes and Plasmonic Nanoparticles into Biophotovoltaics by Yiqun Yang and Jun Li
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    ISBN: 9789535134305
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    Keywords: hydropower ; renewable energy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter - Aspects of Renewable Hydroelectric Power Generation by Basel I. Ismail --- Chapter 2: Prospects of Small Hydropower Technology by Jacson Hudson Inácio Ferreira and José Roberto Camacho --- Chapter 3: Design of Zero Head Turbines for Power Generation by Edwin Chica and Ainhoa Rubio-Clemente --- Chapter 4: Planning Hydropower Production of Small Reservoirs Under Resources and System Knowledge Uncertainty by Divas Karimanzira, Thomas Rauschenbach, Torsten Pfuetzenreuter, Jing Qin and Zhao Yun --- Chapter 5: Hydropower Development in Nepal - Climate Change, Impacts and Implications by Ramesh Prasad Bhatt
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    ISBN: 9789535133827
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    Keywords: fractal geometry ; fractal analysis ; fractals ; application ; medicine ; social sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Fractal Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals Empowering the Bioengineering Knowledge by Ricardo L. Armentano, Walter Legnani and Leandro J. Cymberknop --- Chapter 2: Complex Systems with Self-Elimination of Dissipation with Implication in Bio-Structural Behavior Via Nondifferentiability by Maricel Agop, Decebal Vasincu, Daniel Timofte, Elena Simona Bacaita, Andrei Agop and Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc --- Chapter 3: The Fractal Analysis of the Images and Signals in Medical Diagnostics by Tayurskii Dmitrii Albertovich and Rusanova Inna Aleksandrovna --- Chapter 4: Polyadic Cantor Fractals: Characterization, Generation, and Application as Ultrasonic Lenses by Sergio Castiñeira-Ibañez, Daniel Tarrazó-Serrano, José Miguel Fuster, Pilar Candelas and Constanza Rubio --- Chapter 5: Fractal to Non-Fractal Morphological Transitions in Stochastic Growth Processes by José Roberto Nicolás-Carlock, Víctor Dossetti and José Luis Carrillo- Estrada --- Chapter 6: The Altepetl: Fractal Modeling of a Pre-Hispanic Human Agency by Fernando López Aguilar --- Chapter 7: Fractal Analysis Based on Hierarchical Scaling in Complex Systems by Yanguang Chen --- Chapter 8: Characterization of Cultural Traits by Means of Fractal Analysis by Sabrina Farías-Pelayo --- Chapter 9: On Self-Affine and Self-Similar Graphs of Fractal Interpolation Functions Generated from Iterated Function Systems by Sean Dillon and Vasileios Drakopoulos --- Chapter 10: Pair-Pair Angular Correlation Function by Filipe Leoncio Braga and Alexandre Barbosa de Souza
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    ISBN: 9789535132141
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    Keywords: green chemistry ; renewable chemicals
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Enhancing the Greenhouse Gas Conversion Efficiency in Microwave Discharges by Power Modulation by Nikolay Britun, Guoxing Chen, Tiago Silva, Thomas Godfroid, Marie- Paule Delplancke-Ogletree and Rony Snyders --- Chapter 2: Role of Plasma Catalysis in the Microwave Plasma-Assisted Conversion of CO2 by Guoxing Chen, Nikolay Britun, Thomas Godfroid, Marie-Paule Delplancke-Ogletree and Rony Snyders --- Chapter 3: Catalytic Conversions of Biomass-Derived Furaldehydes Toward Biofuels by Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani --- Chapter 4: Green Synthesis of Oligomer Calixarenes by Ratnaningsih Eko Sardjono and Rahmi Rachmawati --- Chapter 5: Environment-Friendly Approach in the Synthesis of Metal/ Polymeric Nanocomposite Particles and Their Catalytic Activities on the Reduction of p-Nitrophenol to p-Aminophenol by Noel Peter Bengzon Tan and Cheng Hao Lee --- Chapter 6: Environmental-Friendly Catalytic Oxidation Processes Based on Hierarchical Titanium Silicate Zeolites at SINOPEC by Changjiu Xia, Xinxin Peng, Yao Zhang, Baorong Wang, Min Lin, Bin Zhu, Yibin Luo and Xingtian Shu
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    ISBN: 9789535132608
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    Keywords: optoelectronics
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Properties of GaP Studied over 50 Years by Sergei L. Pyshkin and John Ballato --- Chapter 2: Microcavities for Silica-Fiber-Based Quantum Information Processing by Hai-Zhi Song --- Chapter 3: LED and Phototransistor Simulation by Sergey Yurchuk, Oleg Rabinovich and Sergey Didenko --- Chapter 4: Hybrid Optoelectronic Router for Future Optical Packet- Switched Networks by Salah Ibrahim and Ryo Takahashi --- Chapter 5: Research on the Characteristics of Silicon MOS-Like Light- Emitting Structure by Utilizing the Technology of Field-Induced Optical Radiation Mechanisms by Kaikai Xu --- Chapter 6: Phosphor-LED-Based Wireless Visible Light Communication (VLC) and Its Applications by Chien-Hung Yeh and Chi-Wai Chow --- Chapter 7: Microscopic Particle Manipulation via Optoelectronic Devices by Xiaolu Zhu and Yifei Yang --- Chapter 8: Hybrid Silicon-Organic Heterojunction Structures for Photovoltaic Applications by Andrey Kosarev, Ismael Cosme, Svetlana Mansurova, Antonio J. Olivares and Hiram E. Martinez --- Chapter 9: Modeling of Silicon Photonic Devices for Optical Interconnect Transceiver Circuit Design by Binhao Wang --- Chapter 10: Candidate Materials as Gain Media in Organic, Triplet-Based, Room-Temperature masers Targeting the ISM Bands by Erinn van Wynsberghe and Ayse Turak --- Chapter 11: Analysis of a Resonant AC-AC LED Driver by Teodosescu Petre Dorel, Szekely Norbert Csaba, Sabau Madalina Sabina and Bojan Mircea --- Chapter 12: Ultraviolet Sensors Based on Two-Dimensional Zinc Oxide Structures by Naif H. Al-Hardan, Muhammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, Roslinda Shamsudin and Norinsan Kamil Othman --- Chapter 13: The Optical Phenomena of Interplay between Nanobio Complexes: A Theoretical Insight into Their Biomedical Applications by Ruby Srivastava --- Chapter 14: Sputtered Indium Tin Oxide Films for Optoelectronic Applications by Oleksandr Malik and Francisco Javier de la Hidalga-Wade --- Chapter 15: Surface-Barrier Photodiodes with Transparent Electrodes for High-Performance Detection in the UV-NIR Spectrum by Oleksandr Malik and Francisco Javier De la Hidalga-Wade --- Chapter 16: Spectral Responses in Quantum Efficiency of Emerging Kesterite Thin-Film Solar Cells by Sanghyun Lee and Kent J. Price
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    ISBN: 9789535133704
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    Keywords: risk assessment ; risk avoiding ; risk reduction ; risk control ; natural hazards ; natural disasters
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Landslides: Methodology to Select Stabilizing Construction Works by Oscar Andrés Cuanalo Campos --- Chapter 2: Natural Risk Management to Protect Critical Infrastructures: A Model for Active Learning by Catalin Cioaca, Vasile Prisacariu and Mircea Boscoianu --- Chapter 3: Earthquake Culture: A Significant Element in Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Earthquake Disaster Risk Management by Michaela Ibrion --- Chapter 4: Mexico City after September 2017: Are We Building the Right City? by Milton Montejano-Castillo and Mildred Moreno-Villanueva --- Chapter 5: On Risk and Reliability Studies of Climate-Related Building Performance by Krystyna Pietrzyk and Ireneusz Czmoch --- Chapter 6: Machinery Safety Requirements as an Effective Tools for Operational Safety Management by Hana Pacaiova --- Chapter 7: Integrated Risk Assessment of Safety, Security, and Safeguards by Mitsutoshi Suzuki --- Chapter 8: Practical Propagation of Trust in Risk Management Systems by Kristian Helmholt, Matthijs Vonder, Bram Van Der Waaij, Elena Lazovik and Niels Neumann --- Chapter 9: Risk Assessment for Collaborative Operation: A Case Study on Hand-Guided Industrial Robots by Varun Gopinath, Kerstin Johansen and Johan Ölvander --- Chapter 10: Managing Technogenic Risks with Stakeholder Cooperation by Riitta Molarius --- Chapter 11: Risks, Safety and Security in the Ecosystem of Smart Cities by Stig O. Johnsen --- Chapter 12: Implementation of Basel and Solvency Risk Assessment Standards in Banks and Insurance Companies of Southeastern Europe Countries by Safet Kozarevic, Emira Kozarevic, Pasqualina Porretta and Fabrizio Santoboni --- Chapter 13: Environmental Health Surveillance for Health Risk Assessment Following Radionuclide Release by Robert Wålinder --- Chapter 14: Challenges and Perspectives of the Risk Assessment of the Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era by Israel Gomy --- Chapter 15: Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Urban Environment by Gevorg Tepanosyan, Lilit Sahakyan, David Pipoyan and Armen Saghatelyan --- Chapter 16: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Risks, Challenges, and Solutions by Zakiya Hoyett --- Chapter 17: Estimation of PM2.5 Trajectory Using Atmospheric Dispersion Models and GIS in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area by Kayoko Yamamoto and Zhaoxin Yang --- Chapter 18: Risk Assessment and Prediction of Aflatoxin in Agro-Products by Peiwu Li, Xiaoxia Ding, Yizhen Bai, Linxia Wu, Xiaofeng Yue and Liangxiao Zhang --- Chapter 19: Risk Management in Complex Organisations by Andrea Antonucci
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    Keywords: water quality ; hydrology ; chemical analyses
    Description / Table of Contents: Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, biological, and radiological characteristics of water. It is a measure of the condition of water for the purposes intended for. It is most frequently used by reference to a set of standards against which compliance can be assessed. The most common standards used to assess water quality relate to health of ecosystems, safety of human contact and potable drinking water. A range of diverse topics in the field of water quality modelling, statistical evaluation and guidelines pertaining to the best management practices in different locations around the world is given herein. Modelling of water quality in rivers and lakes, statistical methods and membrane filter performance are subject matters of interest considering in-situ water, potable water, water re-use, etc.
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    ISBN: 9789535121633
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    Keywords: x-ray ; scattering ; diffraction ; spectroscopy
    Description / Table of Contents: X-ray scattering techniques are a family of nondestructive analytical techniques. Using these techniques, scientists obtain information about the crystal structure and chemical and physical properties of materials. Nowadays, different techniques are based on observing the scattered intensity of an X-ray beam hitting a sample as a function of incident and scattered angle, polarization, and wavelength. This book is intended to give overviews of the relevant X-ray scattering techniques, particularly about inelastic X-ray scattering, elastic scattering, grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering, and high-resolution X-ray diffraction, and, finally, applications of X-ray spectroscopy to study different biological systems.
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    ISBN: 9789535128885
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    Keywords: wave propagation ; telecommunication ; signal processing
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Localized Bessel Beams: Basic Properties and Emerging Communication Applications by Sandra Costanzo --- Chapter 2: Transionospheric Microwave Propagation: Higher-Order Effects up to 100 GHz by Mohammed Mainul Hoque, Norbert Jakowski and Jens Berdermann --- Chapter 3: Ka-to-W Band EM Wave Propagation: Tropospheric Effects and Countermeasures by Lorenzo Luini, Roberto Nebuloni and Carlo Riva --- Chapter 4: Photon Propagation Through Dispersive Media by Patricio Robles and Francisco Pizarro --- Chapter 5: Light Wave Propagation and Scattering Through Particles by Yi Ping Han, Zhi Wei Cui and Jia Jie Wang --- Chapter 6: Slow Electromagnetic Waves: Theory and New Applications by Giuseppe Di Massa --- Chapter 7: Numerical Investigation about Frequency Behaviour of Conformal FSS by Giovanni Leone, Francesco Mattiello and Rocco Pierri --- Chapter 8: A Rain Estimation System Based on Electromagnetic Propagation Models and DVB-S Opportunistic Sensors by Daniele Caviglia, Matteo Pastorino, Andrea Randazzo and Andrea Caridi --- Chapter 9: Real-Time Electromagnetic Signal Processing: Principles and Illustrations by Shulabh Gupta and Christophe Caloz --- Chapter 10: Manipulating Electromagnetic Waves with Zero Index Materials by Shiyang Liu, Jialin Zhou, Ying Han, Xinning Yu, Huajin Chen and Zhifang Lin
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    ISBN: 9789535131281
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    Keywords: mobile devices ; wireless devices ; MANET
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Data-Gathering and Aggregation Protocol for Networked Carrier Ad Hoc Networks: The Optimal and Heuristic Approach by Chao Gao, Guorong Zhao and Jianhua Lu --- Chapter 2: A Composite Trust Model for Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks by Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Narendra M. Patel and Devesh C. Jinwala --- Chapter 3: Performance Analysis of Three Routing Protocols in MANET Using the NS-2 and ANOVA Test with Varying Speed of Nodes by Subhrananda Goswami, Subhankar Joardar, Chandan Bikash Das, Samarajit Kar and Dibyendu Kumar Pal --- Chapter 4: Cooperative Routing in Multi-Radio Multi-Hop Wireless Network by Kun Xie, Shiming He, Xin Wang, Dafang Zhang and Keqin Li --- Chapter 5: MANET Network in Internet of Things System by Rasa Bruzgiene, Lina Narbutaite and Tomas Adomkus --- Chapter 6: Radio Frequency-Based Indoor Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks by Mehdi Golestanian, Joshua Siva and Christian Poellabauer
    Pages: Online-Ressource (146 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535131106
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  • 84
    Keywords: graphene ; graphite
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Degradation of Toxic Organic Contaminants by Graphene Cathode in an Electro-Fenton System by Liu Shuan, Zhao Xia, Jiang Xin, Zhao Xiaorong, Pu Jibin, Wang Liping and Zhou Kaihe --- Chapter 2: Graphene Oxide–Antimony Nanocomposite Sensor for Analysis of Platinum Group Metals in Roadside Soil Samples by Bongiwe Silwana, Charlton van der Horst, Emmanuel Iwuoha and Vernon Somerset --- Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene and Emerging Applications by Golap Kalita and Masaki Tanemura --- Chapter 4: Solution-Processed Graphene-Based Transparent Conductive Electrodes as Ideal ITO Alternatives for Organic Solar Cells by Minas M. Stylianakis, Dimitrios Konios, Konstantinos Petridis and Emmanuel Kymakis --- Chapter 5: Chemical, Thermal, and Light-Driven Reduction of Graphene Oxide: Approach to Obtain Graphene and its Functional Hybrids by Mohammad Razaul Karim and Shinya Hayami --- Chapter 6: Reduced Graphene Oxide–Based Microsupercapacitors by Zhi Jiang, Yang Wang and Cheng Yang --- Chapter 7: Adsorption of Metal Clusters on Graphene and Their Effect on the Electrical Conductivity by Roxana M. Del Castillo and Luis E. Sansores Cuevas --- Chapter 8: Graphene-Enhanced Optical Signal Processing by Jian Wang and Xiao Hu --- Chapter 9: Graphene against Other Two-Dimensional Materials: A Comparative Study on the Basis of Photonic Applications by Rafael Vargas-Bernal --- Chapter 10: Surface-Modified Graphene for Mid-Infrared Detection by Mehrdad Siahsar, Mahboubeh Dolatyari, Ali Rostami and Ghasem Rostami --- Chapter 11: Fluorinated Graphene Dielectric and Functional Layers for Electronic Applications by Irina V. Antonova and Nadezhda A. Nebogatikova
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    ISBN: 9789535131427
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    Keywords: geothermal energy ; geothermal resources ; renewable energy ; geothermal exploration
    Description / Table of Contents: Geothermal energy means the natural heat energy from the Earth. The geothermal resources of the Earth are huge and unlike other conventional and renewable energy sources, geothermal energy has unique features; namely, it is available, stable at all times throughout the year, independent of weather conditions, and has an inherent storage capability. Geothermal energy is also considered to be an environmentally friendly clean energy source that could significantly contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions. The utilization of geothermal energy is usually divided into the part used for electricity generation and the part used for heating applications. Due to its important utilization and future prospects, various interesting topics of research related to geothermal energy are covered in this book. This book is the result of contributions from several researchers and experts worldwide. It is hoped that the book will become a useful source of information and basis for extended research for researchers, academics, policy makers, and practitioners in the area of geothermal energy.
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    ISBN: 9789535122418
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    Keywords: fluid dynamics ; wave propagation
    Description / Table of Contents: This book contains five chapters detailing significant advances in and applications of new turbulence theory and fluid dynamics modeling with a focus on wave propagation from arbitrary depths to shallow waters, computational modeling for predicting optical distortions through hypersonic flow fields, wind strokes over highway bridges, optimal crop production in a greenhouse, and technological appliance and performance concerns in wheelchair racing. We hope this book to be a useful resource to scientists and engineers who are interested in the fundamentals and applications of fluid dynamics.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535122289
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    Keywords: engineering ; heat and mass transfer
    Description / Table of Contents: This book covers a wide variety of topics related to advancements in different stages of mass transfer modelling processes. Its purpose is to create a platform for the exchange of recent observations, experiences, and achievements. It is recommended for those in the chemical, biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and nanotechnology industries as well as for students of natural sciences, technical, environmental and employees in companies which manufacture machines for the above-mentioned industries. This work can also be a useful source for researchers and engineers dealing with mass transfer and related issues.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535121923
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    Keywords: air pollution ; air quality ; urban areas
    Description / Table of Contents: Air pollution is thus far one of the key environmental issues in urban areas. Comprehensive air quality plans are required to manage air pollution for a particular area. Consequently, air should be continuously sampled, monitored, and modeled to examine different action plans. Reviews and research papers describe air pollution in five main contexts: Monitoring, Modeling, Risk Assessment, Health, and Indoor Air Pollution. The book is recommended to experts interested in health and air pollution issues.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (654 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535121800
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    Keywords: remote sensing ; Earth observation
    Description / Table of Contents: Nowadays, the innovation in space technologies creates a new trend for the Earth observation and monitoring from space. This book contains high quality and compressive work on both microwave and optical remote sensing applications. This book is divided into five sections: (i) remote sensing for biomass estimation, (ii) remote sensing-based glacier studies, (iii) remote sensing for coastal and ocean applications, (iv) sewage leaks and environment disasters, and (v) remote sensing image processing. Each chapter offers an opportunity to expand the knowledge about various remote sensing techniques and persuade researchers to deliver new research novelty for environment studies.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (416 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535124443
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  • 90
    Keywords: climate change ; oceanography ; atmospheric sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: The sustainability of irrigation and drainage in the face of many variants and constraints like availability of water as a resource, ecological balance, socio-cultural impacts, and climate change effects lies in the strategies adopted and systems emplaced. It has always remained a challenge for the users of irrigation waters to maintain sustainability in quality and quantity. This book aims ?to explore frontiers of knowledge in coining sustainable strategies and systems direly needed in managing the quality and quantity of water required for crop irrigation, surface and root zone drainage and flood management using available tools of research and development?. Eminent authors and their colleagues possessing varied professional backgrounds and expertise have dealt with these issues concerning the strategies and systems of irrigation and drainage. This book will prove to be beneficial for crop growers, agricultural engineers, water resource managers, academicians and graduate students alike.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (126 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535121237
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    Keywords: hydrodynamics ; hydrology ; mechanical engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: The present book on Hydrodynamics - Concepts and Experiments contains six chapters, each of which devoted to a topic considered interesting to compose this book. Although the tools used in the different chapters are somewhat superposed, a first classification may be presented as: the first two chapters describe numerical models; the third and fourth chapters use experimental tools and results; and the fourth, fifth and sixth chapters present conceptual aspects of fluid dynamics. A more detailed description is furnished in the sequence. The six topics that compose this book may be resumed as: Flow-Structure Interactions, Hydrodynamic Models and Biological processes in Coastal Waters, Useful Cavitation, New Concepts in Hydraulic Jumps, Lagrangian Formulation of Fluid Dynamics, and Small Perturbations in Viscous Fluids.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (166 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535120346
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  • 92
    Keywords: agricultural and biological sciences ; biodiversity ; ecosystems ; ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: The term biodiversity has become a mainstream concept that can be found in any newspaper at any given time. Concerns on biodiversity protection are usually linked to species protection and extinction risks for iconic species, such as whales, pandas and so on. However, conserving biodiversity has much deeper implications than preserving a few (although important) species. Biodiversity in ecosystems is tightly linked to ecosystem functions such as biomass production, organic matter decomposition, ecosystem resilience, and others. Many of these ecological processes are also directly implied in services that the humankind obtains from ecosystems. The first part of this book will introduce different concepts and theories important to understand the links between ecosystem function and ecosystem biodiversity. The second part of the book provides a wide range of different studies showcasing the evidence and practical implications of such relationships.
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    ISBN: 9789535120285
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    Keywords: Raman spectroscopy
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Raman Microscopy: A Suitable Tool for Characterizing Surfaces in Interaction with Plasmas in the Field of Nuclear Fusion by Cedric Pardanaud, Celine Martin and Pascale Roubin --- Chapter 2: Raman Investigations of Atomic/Molecular Clusters and Aggregates by Zhixun Luo and Jiannian Yao --- Chapter 3: Raman Mapping: Emerging Applications by Cristina Coman and Loredana Florina Leopold --- Chapter 4: Semiconductor Nanowires: Raman Spectroscopy Studies by Marta De Luca and Ilaria Zardo --- Chapter 5: Raman Study of the Crystalline-to-Amorphous State in Alpha- Decay–Damaged Materials by Ming Zhang --- Chapter 6: Raman Spectroscopy for Monitoring Strain on Graphene and Oxidation Corrosion on Nuclear Claddings by Hongyi Mi, Zhenqiang Ma and James P. Blanchard --- Chapter 7: Boosting the Amount of Molecular Information Through Polarized Resolved Resonance Raman Scattering by Søren Hassing --- Chapter 8: Petrographical and Mineralogical Applications of Raman Mapping by Frédéric Foucher, Guillaume Guimbretière, Nicolas Bost and Frances Westall --- Chapter 9: Stimulated Raman Scattering for All Optical Switches by Ariel Flores-Rosas, Evgeny A. Kuzin, Orlando Díaz-Hernández, Gerardo J. Escalera-Santos, Roberto Arceo-Reyes, Baldemar Ibarra- Escamilla and Víctor I. Ruiz-Pérez --- Chapter 10: Raman Spectroscopy of Amino Acid Crystals by Paulo T.C. Freire, Felipe M. Barboza, José A. Lima, Francisco E.A. Melo and Josué Mendes Filho --- Chapter 11: Raman Spectroscopy with X-Rays by Piter Sybren Miedema --- Chapter 12: Using Raman Spectroscopy to Improve Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Production for Clinical Lung Imaging Techniques by Jonathan Birchall, Nicholas Whiting, Jason Skinner, Michael J. Barlow and Boyd M. Goodson --- Chapter 13: Inverse Raman Scattering in Femtosecond Broadband Transient Absorption Experiments by Antonio Aloi and Raffaele Tommasi --- Chapter 14: Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Ujjal Kumar Sur --- Chapter 15: The Intricate Nature of SERS: Real-Life Applications and Challenges by Nicoleta Elena Dina and Alia Colniță --- Chapter 16: Precision Target Guide Strategy for Applying SERS into Environmental Monitoring by Lei Ouyang, Dingyi Li, Lihua Zhu and Heqing Tang
    Pages: Online-Ressource (362 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535129080
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    Keywords: Natural disaster ; Extreme event ; Pandemic ; Disaster risk finance ; Time inconsistency ; Commitment device ; Planning ; Behavioural psychology ; Politics of disaster relief ; Risk management
    Description / Table of Contents: In recent years, typhoons have struck the Philippines and Vanuatu; earthquakes have rocked Haiti, Pakistan, and Nepal; floods have swept through Pakistan and Mozambique; droughts have hit Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia; and more. All led to loss of life and loss of livelihoods, and recovery will take years. One of the likely effects of climate change is to increase the likelihood of the type of extreme weather events that seems to cause these disasters. But do extreme events have to turn into disasters with huge loss of life and suffering? Dull Disasters? harnesses lessons from finance, political science, economics, psychology, and the natural sciences to show how countries and their partners can be far better prepared to deal with disasters. The insights can lead to practical ways in which governments, civil society, private firms, and international organizations can work together to reduce the risks to people and economies when a disaster looms. Responses to disasters then become less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective. The book takes the reader through a range of solutions that have been implemented around the world to respond to disasters. It gives an overview of the evidence on what works and what doesn't and it examines the crucial issue of disaster risk financing. Building on the latest evidence, it presents a set of lessons and principles to guide future thinking, research, and practice in this area.
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    ISBN: 9780198785576
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    Keywords: earthquake ; seismology ; geology ; geophysics
    Description / Table of Contents: The book Earthquake Engineering - From Engineering Seismology to Optimal Seismic Design of Engineering Structures contains fifteen chapters written by researchers and experts in the fields of earthquake and structural engineering. This book provides the state-of-the-art on recent progress in the field of seimology, earthquake engineering and structural engineering. The book should be useful to graduate students, researchers and practicing structural engineers. It deals with seismicity, seismic hazard assessment and system oriented emergency response for abrupt earthquake disaster, the nature and the components of strong ground motions and several other interesting topics, such as dam-induced earthquakes, seismic stability of slopes and landslides. The book also tackles the dynamic response of underground pipes to blast loads, the optimal seismic design of RC multi-storey buildings, the finite-element analysis of cable-stayed bridges under strong ground motions and the acute psychiatric trauma intervention due to earthquakes.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (408 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535120391
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    Keywords: satellite positioning ; GNSS ; GPS ; engineering
    Description / Table of Contents: Satellite positioning techniques, particularly global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), are capable of measuring small changes of the Earths shape and atmosphere, as well as surface characteristics with an unprecedented accuracy. This book is devoted to presenting recent results and development in satellite positioning technique and applications, including GNSS positioning methods, models, atmospheric sounding, and reflectometry as well their applications in the atmosphere, land, oceans and cryosphere. This book provides a good reference for satellite positioning techniques, engineers, scientists as well as user community.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (212 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535117384
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    Keywords: river basin ; hydrographical basin ; flood damage ; drought
    Description / Table of Contents: Many of the challenges facing farmers and human communities from hydrographical basins are not new. But, due to the fact that the nature and extents of the problems vary from one region to another and from one basin to another, the responses are highly diversified. There is no generally valid solution for all the problems. However, in addressing issues on ensuring the prevention or mitigation of the destructive consequences of flood damage or prolonged drought as for the optimal use of water by consumers, sustainable basin land use, biodiversity conservation, and environment protection as well, fourteen specialists and their colleagues present the state of the art in these important matters and new possible solutions to solve, identified from the scientific investigations undertaken.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535126058
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  • 98
    Keywords: hydrogen ; hydrogenation
    Description / Table of Contents: Hydrogen is one of the abundant elements on earth majorly in the form of water (H2O) and mainly as hydrogen gas (H2). Catalytic hydrogenation is a key reaction that has versatile applications in different industries. The main objective of this book is to bring together various applications of hydrogenation through the perspective of leading researchers in the field. This book is intended to be used as a graduate-level text book or as a practical guide for industrial engineers.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (360 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535128700
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    Keywords: earthquake ; seismology ; tectonics ; natural hazards ; risk analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Earthquake Instrumentation by Jae Cheon Jung --- Chapter 2: Application of Local Wave Decomposition in Seismic Signal Processing by Ya-juan Xue, Jun-xing Cao, Gu-lan Zhang, Hao-kun Du, Zhan Wen, Xiao-hui Zeng and Feng Zou --- Chapter 3: 3D Seismic Velocity Structure Around Plate Boundaries and Active Fault Zones by Mohamed K. Salah --- Chapter 4: Characteristics of Seismic Wave Propagation of Harmonic Tremors Observed at the Margin in the Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica by Masaki Kanao --- Chapter 5: The b-Value Analysis of Aftershocks 170 Days After the 23 October 2011 Van Earthquake (M w, 7.1) of the Lake Van Basin, Eastern Anatolia: A New Perspective on the Seismic Radiation and Deformation Characteristics by Mustafa Toker --- Chapter 6: New Insight in Liquefaction After Recent Earthquakes: Chile, New Zealand and Japan by Yolanda Alberto-Hernandez and Ikuo Towhata --- Chapter 7: Three-Dimensional Nepal Earthquake Displacement Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Phase Unwrapping from Sentinel-1A Satellite by Maged Marghany and Shattri Mansor --- Chapter 8: Space-Time Forecasting of Seismic Events in Chile by Orietta Nicolis, Marcello Chiodi and Giada Adelfio --- Chapter 9: Ultra-Low-Noise Seismic Accelerometers for Earthquake Prediction and Monitoring by Felix A. Levinzon --- Chapter 10: Earthquake Prediction by Khaled Ghaedi and Zainah Ibrahim --- Chapter 11: Issues of the Seismic Safety of Nuclear Power Plants by Tamás János Katona --- Chapter 12: Intelligent Seismic-Acoustic System for Identifying the Area of the Focus of an Expected Earthquake by Telman Aliev --- Chapter 13: Earthquakes and Structural Damages by Burak Yön, Erkut Sayın and Onur Onat --- Chapter 14: Simulating Collapse Behaviors of Buildings and Motion Behaviors of Indoor Components During Earthquakes by Daigoro Isobe --- Chapter 15: Seismic Behaviour of Post-Tensioned Segmental Bridge Columns with Self-Centring System by Ehsan Nikbakht
    Pages: Online-Ressource (386 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535128861
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    Keywords: evapotranspiration ; water flux ; moisture evaporation ; climate change
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Comparison of Evapotranspiration Methods Under Limited Data by Hsin-Fu Yeh --- Chapter 2: Assessment and Prediction of Evapotranspiration Based on Scintillometry and Meteorological Datasets by Antonin Poisson, Angel Fernandez, Dario G. Gomez, Régis Barillé and Benoit Chorro --- Chapter 3: Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration Models to Onsite and Offsite Meteorological Data for a Poderosa Pine Forest by Wonsook Ha, Abraham E. Springer, Frances C. O'Donnell and Thomas E. Kolb --- Chapter 4: Evapotranspiration in Northern Agro-Ecosystems: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Comparison by Watcharee Ruairuen, Gilberto J. Fochesatto, Marco Bittelli, Elena B. Sparrow, Mingchu Zhang and William Schnabel --- Chapter 5: Moisture Evaporation from Granular Biopesticides Containing Quiescent Entomopathogenic Nematodes by Carlos Inocencio Cortés-Martínez, Jaime Ruiz-Vega and Gabino Alberto Martínez-Gutiérrez
    Pages: Online-Ressource (114 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9789535131748
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